Defence updates and Ben Stokes retirement

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We'll find out his plans for how he might run the country. Proposals for a new destroyer to replace Britain's aging warships have been scrapped and replaced with modern warfare Hello, you' lening to Cheatheet, a ten minute podcast on Monday'ays News on Monday, the twenty ninth of June. I'm Sfie Ridich. And I'm Wilfer Fros also today, England cricket Captain Legend. Ben Stokes retires mid test from interternational cricket All eyes obviously now on Andy Burnham over the next two weeks' expected. he'll become Labour leader seventeenth of July, Prime Minister twentieth of July Hly, highly, highly unlikely any challenges between that. And so everything he says is basically seen as will be government policy and this big speech happening today? Yeah, We're in this kind of weird situation, aren't we where actually The actual government is announcing is less interesting than what Andy Berdam was saying because this is his chance to setll out his direction, right? What is he going to be as Prime Minister? Because at the minute, we don't really know So today is a big, big speech. He's talking at the People's History Museum. He's not going to be taking questions afterwards. It's just going to be a speech promising a circuit breroaker moment for the UK. So the flagship proposal is this number ten in the north, so shifting parts of central government outside of London. And what people around him are saying is that this is going to be the biggest transfer of power out of Westminster in modern times part of his devolution program because this is going to be at the heart of any Berham premiership. So social housing, welfare adult education All of these things that he wants have more sayf for those regions if what happens. So this speech, this is the first time we'll really get his vision for economic policy for the nation By the way, he's not taking any questions afterwards Not cool, Andy If you're the man, stand up Face scrutiny But this is the first time he's given us his views on this. So like we're all going to be pouring over it. The devolution part is clearly going to be central to it, but just simply where he is on the on the spectrum but for economics in general You know, this is what we're going to look at for that. And then We'll all start wondering H, what does this mean Could he really go for Edmilliband as Chancellor Or will it be someone a bit more centrist whole questions that we need to be to have answered, and we're just going to be pouring over every detail for the next couple of weeks. Yeah, it's totally right. because Andy Burnham has got such a broad spectrum of support from across the Labour Party right. He's got the people on you know the soft left, many people would say that he is on the soft left. Youve got people on the further left of the Labour Party as well backing him. So the kind of John McDonald's of this world, the Richard Berggins of this world. And then you got the centrists backing him as well, right? So you've got the kind of Wes Streetings backing him too Where is he going to end up? It's genuinely quite hard to tell. You know We don't know this detail yet, but I'm jumping ahead of it. Devolution is a big, big part of his agenda. It always then raises the question of should you devolve some tax raising powers I think this would be a really bad idea for our country. We're quite a small country. And I'd just give a snapshot of what happens in the US where The nation suddenly becomes very defined economically across geographies. becausecause if you are an area that decides to say, look, we are going to give you the best public transport imaginable. To do so, we're going to raise taxes versus an area that says, you know what We're going to do the opposite We're going to incentivize business and lower tax, whatever tax raising powers you deolve Suddenly, over the years you have Very small c conservative cities and very, you know liberal cities, as you'd say in America And it creates A a real political identity based on where you live. Now maybe we've got aspects of that already But I'd just say, be careful what you wish for on devolving actual tax raising powers And for all of you know, the questions when we say Be careful, the richest people might move to Dubai. big thing to do, right? You're going to move country continent and everything 's veryy easy to move within your country So I think people will move quite swiftly if those things happen. I guess the only flip side side to that is that we have a country at the minute where the capital city dominates and what people would say the minute abolutely' got so many of those kind of what people describe as wealth creaters in London at the detriment of other areas. So Is this a chance for some of those other cities to make themselves more attractive, right? Which is not necessarily a bad thing? I guess my point in the middle of this would be that go for it, go for broke on that, but do it via spending as soon as you devolve tax raising powers I think you just changed it can work. But be careful what the secondary effects are. Look an update on Iran, which is, you know, to say we're reminded over the last couple of days of the fragility of the Ceasefire that has been agreed, fighting breaking out between the U S and Iran on a number of occasions over the last couple of days. and oil prices as a result have ticked up They have only ticked up, but we're back to seventy two, seventy three. So back above seventy on Brent Cude. Now The temperature is again cooler this morning compared to twenty four, forty eight hours ago. But This all comes as Iran's foreign minister saying we are completely in control of the straight. So I think what I'd say is clear this Monday versus last Monday. is A, there are risks in the very short term. B in the medium to long term, highlighted again how po the deal is overruled for a lot of the West if that's how Iran is framing things going forward. Meanwhile Israel said on Sunday it had again struck the Iran back Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, so destroying some of that underground infrastructure. used by the group in a village in southern Lebanon there. and it comes after another strike on Saturday All this, of course, closely following the supposed ceasefire deal atward Lebanon on Friday Abround fifty thousand people are still reported missing in Venezuela days after those devastating earthquakes. The' acting president Der Robg Rguez said on Sunday that she was setting up a special commission to assess the damage to homes and to try and find out if it's safe for people sleeping on the streets to go back. Aid agencies say, of course, that the first forty eight to seventy two hours after a disaster are crucial for trying to find people who are alive crucial milestone has now passed because the back to Back earthquakes hit five days ago. Now of course, the defense investment plan is highly controversial for all sorts of reasons, not least whether it goes ahead in the Starmer plan before Andy Burnham takes over or not. What one detail that's seemingly emerg emerging from the outgoingrime Minister's plan what that's still worth or not is that The Royal Navy' kind of old aging destroyers we're going to be replaced with newer ones, instead now They're going to have their life extended and be used in slightly different ways with a big fleet of drones, both underwater and air drones. so that aging destroyers can still be used to coordinate part of their role would be to coordinate those drones. as opposed to purely being you know the first line of defense as it were I mean, look to be positive about this Clearly the new technology can change what we need going forward and alter the costs therefore. and obviously this approach will be seen as saving money from funding entirely new destroyers. If I'm honest, I feel a bit flat this morning And the reason I do is because Ben Stakes Gladiator of English cricket. has announced he is hiring from international Cricket. It was so weird because it happened halfway through the test match against New Zealand, which I was watching and then saw all the stuff happening on social media And you know it leaves a lot of questions I guess as to know why he's taking the decision, but it's a massive hole for England One can guess like doing it now is to some kind of push back on the ECB and he clearly thinks it's unfair. He got dropped for a test after breaking a curfew By all accounts, he just stayed out late after winning a game feels hard done by on that level The gist, as you say, we're trying to piece it together is toll it's taken in general on him over many years, all sorts of factors he's had to face as captain has just reached a point where he says, you know what? enough is enough He's thirty five So doesn't have a decade ahead of him, but he is a Titanic loss. He's carried this England team for for so long now and You said legend, I mean, he's a complete legend. Yeah, exactly. If you were kind of backack to the wall