Morning briefing Friday 3rd October

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0:43after a suspected Islamist terrorist murdered two Jewish men at a synagogue in Manchester. Police named the attacker as 35-year-old Jihad al-Shami, a British citizen of Syrian descent. The Prime Minister warned that anti-Semitic hatred was rising once again as police were deployed to protect Jewish sites of worship across the country after the attack in Manchester. Angela Epstein is a freelance journalist from the city. She spoke about what the attack means for members of the Jewish community. I love Britain. I love Manchester. I feel as much a Mancunian as a Brit as I do as a Jewish person. I have always seen them as coexisting.

1:20And there are a lot of, we're deeply loyal. People were loyal to the Crown, we're loyal to the country. So people don't want to go, but they will now feel, how much more can we take? Two men in their 30s and a woman in her 60s were also arrested in connection with the attack. Meanwhile, the Chief of Greater Manchester Police has praised the immediate bravery of worshippers and security who stopped the attacker from entering the synagogue. The congregation barricaded themselves inside after Al-Shamie managed to get through the gate. Sir Keir Starmer rushed back from talks in Copenhagen to chair an emergency Cobra meeting.

1:56He vowed to do everything to keep the Jewish community safe, describing the attacker as a vile individual. The UK's chief rabbi said that the terrorist attack was the tragic result of an unrelenting wave of Jew hatred on our streets, campuses, on social media and elsewhere. Former Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May has criticised Kemi Badenoch's plan to scrap climate laws pledging net zero by 2050. May accused her successor of wanting to upend 17 years of consensus between our main political parties and the scientific community. The Climate Change Act was brought in by the last Labour government in 2008.

2:35Badeknoch has described keeping the commitment as nonsensical. A sentiment Conservative MP for Gordon and Buchan, Harriet Cross, agrees with. We don't have to continue with the consensus. We don't have to continue with policies which aren't delivering what they were intended to do. And what Kemi has announced actually just opens up freedoms which will allow us to explore other avenues to ensuring that the UK, UK citizens, UK businesses have access to abundant, cheap, clean energy. Meanwhile, on the first day of their party conference, the Green Party will accuse Labour of being too strongly influenced by Reform UK.

3:14Their new leader, Zach Polanski, will appeal to voters ahead of the local elections in May next year, pledging his party would bring down bills for taxing high earners and investing in public services. And a diet rich in fruit and vegetables and low in meat and dairy could prevent around 15 million deaths a year. That's according to new analysis from the 2025 Eat Lancet Commission. The so-called planetary health diet is linked to a 27 % reduced risk of premature death. It's mostly made up of whole grains, fruit, vegetables, nuts and legumes, with only small amounts of fish, meat or dairy.

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