Evening briefing Wednesday 11th February

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0:46Prime Minister says Matthew Doyle lied to him when he first announced his intention to make him appear in December. Mr Speaker, Matthew Doyle did not give a full account of his actions. and on Monday I promised my party and my country there will be change and yesterday I removed the week from Matthew Doyle. Sources now say though the Prime Minister found out more information before Lord Doyle officially entered the Lords last month. The government insists there's no precedent for stopping a peerage which has been announced but parliamentary officials say there was nothing to stop ministers reversing that appointment.

1:21Matthew Doyle has apologised. Kimmy Badenock says it shows a pattern of behaviour after the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington. Nobody buys it, Mr Speaker. Not even, not even the Labour women, because they know he always puts the Downing Street Boys Club first. And how dare he criticise us? We weren't the ones stuffing government with hypocrites and paedophile apologists. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor may face charges of misconduct in a public office over his emails with Jeffrey Epstein. Police have spoken to prosecutors about whether there's a case against the former prince.

1:54Emails appear to show him forwarding on confidential information when he was a trade envoy. King's brother has always denied any wrongdoing. Volodymyr Zelensky's chief legal advisor has told The Times the president has ordered MPs to try to find a way to hold elections despite martial law. The Ukrainian constitution currently bans elections during martial law, but Donald Trump has been putting pressure on the Ukrainian government to hold a vote. The Times' correspondent Maxine Tucker has been speaking to his advisors. What they're trying to find a solution to is to have a one-off exemption, an amendment to the electoral legislation which will allow them to have presidential elections under Marshall or as a one-off exception because they don't want to undermine the country's democracy further down the line.

2:36Police have confirmed the 13-year-old suspect in a stabbing in a school in northwest London is a former pupil. They're not treating the incident as terror-related. The two boys stabbed have serious but not life-threatening injuries. And the INEOS founder and Manchester United owner Sir Jim Radcliffe says the UK has been colonised by immigrants. He's been speaking to Sky News. Huge levels of immigrants coming in. I mean, the UK's been colonised. It's costing too much money. It will cause... It's been colonised. It'll cause... Well, yeah. The UK's been colonised by immigrants, really, isn't it? I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020.

3:15Now it's 70 million. Official estimates actually put the population in mid-2020 at 67 million, meaning the population has risen by 3 million since then. Don't forget to subscribe to the Times Radio News Briefing on Spotify or listen live to Times Radio online.

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