Morning briefing Thursday 12th June

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1:22This is the Times Morning Briefing for Thursday 12th June. Economists are warning the Chancellor will have no choice but to impose substantial tax increases in her autumn budget after she announced plans for a significant boost to public spending. In her spending review, Rachel Reeves announced the NHS in England will be given an extra£29 billion a year, as well as plans to invest more on Britain's defence, security and transport infrastructure. James Meadway was an advisor to the former Labour shadow chancellor, John McDonnell. Speaking to Times Radio, he said Reeves could be restricted by her intent not to raise taxes anymore.

2:00Her rules are very tight. She only has about£9 billion spare. And if the economy starts to get knocked a bit over the next few months, and we've seen what knocks look like already this year, Donald Trump's Liberation Day, the shocks of the world economy, like there's a lot of uncertainty out there, which then suddenly knocks your fiscal rules out of joint. One of the areas where spending has been cut is the Home Office. It means a proposed increase in police spending of 2.3 % could be financed by the police precept within the council tax. But some senior police chiefs say that would not be enough to allow them to fulfil the government's pledges on law and order.

2:38The Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley Police is Matthew Barber. The assumption that the Home Office are making is that police and crime commissioners like myself will increase the council tax preset by£14 every year in order to fill the gap. Even if we do that, the gap is still going to be huge. It's still not going to cover the extra money that's needed to recruit more officers or to manage the pay rises and keeping things going as they are. Police in Ballymena have come under attack during a third night of disorder in Northern Ireland. Petrol bombs and masonry were among the items thrown at officers who responded by deploying a water cannon.

3:15Elsewhere in County Antrim, firefighters were called to ablaze at a leisure centre in Laan that had been providing shelter to families who'd been evacuated from Ballymena. Amanda Ferguson is a journalist in Northern Ireland. People from ethnic minority backgrounds who are being sheltered in emergency shelter in safe houses because they had to leave their homes because they were targeted by masked men. People are absolutely terrified. It's really depressing. and clearly not representative of everybody in the town or everybody across Northern Ireland. And fans of The Beach Boys have described the band's co-founder, Brian Wilson, as a musical pioneer following his death at the age of 82.

3:55Wilson was the eldest and the last surviving of the three musical brothers who formed The Beach Boys in 1961. Sir Elton John said Wilson had the biggest influence on his songwriting, while these fans said he embodied the spirits of California. The world has lost arguably the greatest songwriter and melody writer, I think, probably of all time. Music was unparalleled and the entire history of pop music was defined by Brian Wilson's output in the 60s. Tributes to Brian Wilson, who's died at the age of 82. You can follow the Times News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio Online.