The Context

Brazil's President Lula da Silva won a fourth term with 52% of the vote, defeating Flavio Bolsonaro, who had won the first round, refused to concede and said his lawyers would seek to annul the result. Lula vowed to govern for all Brazilians and thanked young voters. A BBC Brazil correspondent said WhatsApp was the main campaign platform, including a channel called Lula's Army that gained more than 10 million followers in days and was used to mobilise supporters, send missions and voice messages, and rejuvenate Lula's image; congressman Andrés Hernández led the digital operation.

An independent inquiry was announced into the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, who was stabbed to death as he walked home in Southampton last December; Vikram Digwa is serving a life sentence. The Home Secretary said the review would examine missed opportunities to prevent the killing and the family's experience of the criminal justice system. Led by former justice secretary Alex Chalk, with an initial report due in five months, it will look at the perpetrator's life in the five years before the killing and the roles of police, health services, education and faith organisations. The family called it an important step forward while saying a long road remained; the murder had led to clashes between far-right activists and police near the scene.

After Storm Bulow, flood warnings remained and two men had been killed by falling trees, while nearly 40,000 properties were without power. The Energy Networks Association chief executive later said a little over 22,000 customers remained without power and more than 800,000 had been restored, that engineers could not enter the field until winds passed, and that fallen trees and remote faults could slow repairs; most customers should expect reconnection in days rather than weeks, he said. In the political segment, Andy Burnham was reported to have left open a possible referendum on restoring freedom of movement with the EU, saying he would not propose rejoining in this parliament, would like to see it in his lifetime and would not move ahead of public opinion. The programme also reported a cautious Budget with a bank tax to fund energy help and adherence to fiscal rules, and Reform's Robert Jenrick setting out cuts to Whitehall back-office, diversity, communications and HR roles, benefits for foreigners, net-zero subsidies, aid and what he called worthless degrees, which he said would save 40 billion pounds in the first year and 80 billion pounds a year by the end of the parliament.