Morning briefing Monday 11th May

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0:48He'll vow to take on the big challenges facing the country. Prime Minister will set out the next steps in his plan to build a stronger and fairer Britain. Sam Rushworth is the Labour MP for Bishop Auckland. He's told Times Radio that he's frustrated by the ongoing debate about Starmer's future. I'm sitting there watching the news updates like everybody else and sometimes in despair at what colleagues are saying. The government's done some really good things over the last two years. There's also a lot of things that we haven't achieved that I think are really important. And I want to be focusing on that rather than entering into this big drama over the leadership.

1:25It's being reported that potential Labour leadership contender Andy Burnham could begin the process of returning to Parliament within days with at least one MP prepared to step aside and allow him to contest a by-election. In her first comments since last week's disastrous election results, the former Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner was critical of the PM's decision to prevent Burnham standing in February. Iran's response to US plans to end the war have been described by President Trump as totally unacceptable. According to Tehran's semi-official news agency, Iran's proposal underlines the need for an end to the war on all fronts.

2:01It calls for the lifting of US sanctions and demands that the US ends its naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz. 20 British nationals rescued from a cruise ship stricken with Hantavirus are now under observation at the Arrow Park Hospital on Merseyside. Paul Hunter is a virologist and professor in medicine at the University of East Anglia. He's told Times Radio that the chances of the disease becoming widespread are minimal. If the risk even in people's houses, people who live in the same home, isn't that great, then the risk in the broader community is even smaller. A 34-year-old man has been charged after an attack on three members of the Jewish community in Enfield, North London.

2:40Dylan Osei is charged with religiously aggravated assault and is due in court today. Adolescence was the big winner at the television BAFTAs, walking off with four awards, including Best Limited Drama. Its cast won the majority of the acting prizes, Christine Tramaco and 16-year-old Owen Cooper in the supporting categories, while Stephen Graham got the Best Leading Actor. Entertainment journalist Natalie Jamieson has told Times Radio that the issues raised in adolescence reached a wide audience. It's one of those shows funded through public service broadcasting through television elsewhere, and then it kind of gets scooped up by Netflix.

3:16who can then invest in it at this point in the streaming platform. Some of that team is coming together and still trying to do, I think, social impact entertainment that can make a difference. And Dame Mary Berry was presented with the BAFTA Fellowship. You can follow The Times News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online.

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