Morning briefing Tuesday 29th September

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1:21This is Times Radio's morning briefing on Tuesday 29th September. The Prime Minister is being warned by senior Labour figures that abolishing the triple lock on state pensions to fund free social care for the elderly would be electoral suicide. Sharon Graham, the General Secretary of the Trade Union Unite, said it would send completely the wrong message. Cabinet ministers appear to be divided on the issue, although Andy Burnham will pledge in his first party conference speech as Prime Minister to have an honest conversation with voters. The triple lock is a guarantee that increases the state pension every year by the highest of three measures, inflation, average earnings or 2.5%.

2:03The Times policy editor Oliver Wright says there could be a compromise. I don't think scrapping the triple lock would give you enough money to do these reforms to social care. So in some ways there may be a trade-off there. He says, yes, some taxes may have to rise, but also people that are pensioners at the moment may have to give up a little of what they might have otherwise had in order to get this guarantee that if they need care in their final years, they will get it and they won't have to pay for it. The Prime Minister will also set up a Greater British Grid in an attempt to lower UK energy costs and bring them in line with European nations within a decade.

2:39In his speech later, Andy Burnham will outline plans to create what will be the first publicly owned player in electricity networks since privatisation under Margaret Thatcher. A police cordon remained in place around three vehicles in a village in Gloucestershire overnight, after five men were released on bail over a suspected terror plot near an RAF base. Fears of a terror attack were downgraded yesterday, just 36 hours after the British Nationals were arrested close to RAF Fairford, which is used by the US Air Force. President Trump said he was surprised that the five men had been released and had earlier claimed that Iran might be behind the plot targeting the base.

3:19Mark Lyle Grant is a former national security advisor. He says Tehran is a potential threat. Iran has in the past tried to recruit sort of proxies to take action in the United Kingdom and we also know that they've been directly involved in sort of attacks against Jewish synagogues and charities earlier this year. So absolutely Iran is a potential threat, but we don't know whether in fact they were behind this particular activity. The Iranian embassy in London has denied any involvement. President Millay of Argentina has given the UK two weeks to stop a plan to prospect for oil off the Falkland Islands or face international arbitration.

4:02In a social media post, Millais said that he had instructed government lawyers to begin proceedings under a UN convention regarding the so-called Sea Lion projects. And staff at Nottingham University have announced a two-month strike over cuts to jobs and courses. Their trade union, the UCU, says the first two strike days on Wednesday and Thursday of this week will coincide with a meeting of the University Council, at which the final business case for cuts will be on the agenda. A marking boycott earlier this year led to some students graduating with estimated degree classifications. There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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