Morning briefing Friday 1st May

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0:47The Met said it will be assessing events across the country after the UK terrorism threat level was raised too severe in the aftermath of the stabbings. The Stop the War Coalition is planning an event in London this month. Professor Ted Cancel is an academic who specialises in community cohesion. He says a more nuanced approach is required. Security, banning marches, banning points of view only gets us so far. We have to get underneath those, we have to understand the causes and we then have to deal with them. Obviously international events change things as well. So we really have to get beneath those arguments in order to offer any contestation of those arguments.

1:2811 million private tenants in England will have stronger rights and protections from today thanks to the introduction of the Renters' Rights Act. The legislation signals the end of so-called no-fault evictions, meaning private landlords will not be able to evict tenants without a valid justification. Nye Jones is the head of campaigns for Generation Rent. The headline of the law is the ending of Section 21 evictions, which means renters like me can be evicted from our homes for no reason with just two months' notice. And this has been one of the major causes of homelessness in recent years and also prevented renters from raising concerns with our landlords for fear of a retaliatory eviction.

2:11A group of Labour MPs have launched a campaign dubbed Anyone But Ange in an attempt to keep Angela Rayner out of number 10. The former Deputy Prime Minister is understood to be considering mounting a leadership challenge after the local elections, depending on Labour's performance. Hugh of polling this week showed only 15 % of the public think Rayner would be a better Prime Minister than Sakir Starmer. President Trump has given his backing to Iran competing at American venues in the World Cup, which gets underway next month. Earlier, the president of world football's governing body FIFA, Gianni Infantino, left delegates in no doubt when he addressed a congress in Vancouver.

2:49And let me start by the outset, or at the outset I should say, confirming straight away for those who maybe want to say something else, or want to write something else, that Iran will be participating at the FIFA World Cup 2026. Iran are scheduled to kick off their campaign against New Zealand in Los Angeles on the 15th of June. and a thief has repented for his crime by returning a set of medieval tiles that he stole almost 60 years ago. Simon White was just nine years old when he visited Wenlock Priory in Shropshire on a family trip in 1967. He left with a keepsake of three ornate clay tiles dating from the 13th century.

3:33English Heritage is asking other people who may have taken artefacts from its sites to get in touch. There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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