Morning briefing Tuesday 1st July

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1:13According to the Daily Telegraph, the BBC Director General, who was at Glastonbury, personally decided not to remove Bob Villain's performance live stream from iPlayer. Veteran broadcaster Robin Lustig told us that Tim Davies' position is now in jeopardy. If it is true that Tim Davey was indeed at Glastonbury and did indeed take the decision not to pull the plug on Bob Villan, and if the BBC is now saying, as it has said, that it thinks that was the wrong decision, then of course that does leave him in a very difficult and embarrassing position. British doctors are said to receive priority for NHS jobs under a new 10-year plan designed to make the health service self-sufficient in staffing.

1:57This comes as the government will commit to a target of hiring no more than one in ten NHS recruits from overseas. The former head of the British Medical Association, Dr Chand Nagpal, told us that the number of foreign doctors in the NHS is already capped. Half of doctors who work in the NHS can come from abroad, depends which part of the UK you may be working in. So to go from that to one in ten, it sounds in one sense a sensible suggestion that we should not have to be dependent on an overseas workforce. I just think it's important to recognise this isn't a new phenomenon. We were built upon an overseas workforce.

2:32The Work and Pension Secretary has shared that ministers now anticipate saving only about half of the amount initially planned from recent welfare reforms. The policy reversal will cost about£3 billion. Members of Parliament have been told that new eligibility rules for personal independence payments won't have an impact on existing claimants. Plus, there will be more funding available to help disabled people find work. However, whips believe that around 50 MPs could still rebel today, making it the biggest rebellion of Sukhia Starmer's premiership. The Labour MP for Livingston, Gregor Poynton, told us that these changes to the reforms are important.

3:09Changes to welfare is a really complex thing and getting the detail right is so, so important because it's about people's lives, the folks that are receiving welfare just now, but also in the future too. So that work will continue to make sure that we get that package absolutely right. The former Conservative minister, George Freeman MP, has been asked to step back from his government trade envoy position. This follows revelations he was paid£60 ,000 a year by GHG Sat, an environmental monitoring firm, which then helped him draft parliamentary questions. Leaked emails showed that the Tory MP for Mid-Norfolk asked the company's director what to ask about, leading Mr Freeman to refer himself to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.

3:51He had served as trade envoy for Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Brunei. And there's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.