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ITV News
Sunday 4 October 2026 · 22:00 BST · 15m · 4 stories · 7 annotated moments · 10 of 15 min on news stories (68%)
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The Green Party passed a motion equating Zionism to racism despite objections from senior figures. Multiple senior figures, including leader Zack Polanski, chose not to vote. Israel's foreign ministry called the decision a stain on UK history and said the Greens had become a body giving legitimacy to terrorism. The motion also rejected the two-state solution and called for a single Palestinian state. The report heard that most Jewish people in the UK consider themselves Zionists in support of a Jewish homeland, and political editor Robert Peston said Angela Rayner had described the motion as crossing a line.
The government scaled back plans to reduce jury trials. Under the original plans, most criminal trials were expected to take place before a judge, with jury trials saved for the most serious offences such as murder and rape. After a backlash, Andy Burnham's government made a U-turn, with only fraud and financial offences to be heard before a judge. The report cited a record backlog of 81,000 criminal court cases, more than twice the pre-pandemic number, and said measures including increased magistrate sentencing powers and restrictions on some appeals were intended to cut waiting times. Legal experts warned the change could move the problem to magistrates' courts and create worse experiences for victims. At the Conservative Party conference, Kemi Badenoch argued the Tories had changed and were now the common-sense party focused on work, family and low state spending, publishing a 100-page document and promising a childcare allowance shake-up so a couple could still receive 30 hours of free childcare if one parent earned more than 100,000. The Tories were reported to be trailing Labour and Reform in the polls.
Lawyers for Christa Pike, who survived a failed execution in Tennessee, said she remained critically ill in hospital and her prognosis was unclear; she was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1995 and was given two lethal injections on Wednesday. In breaking news, the US confirmed it would withdraw all of its bombers stationed at RAF Fairford following an investigation into an alleged planned terror attack at the military base, after a UK Iranian dual national arrested on suspicion of preparing for terrorist acts was released on bail yesterday.
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- 3:38 Story begins Green Party conference faces row over Zionism motion
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Contested quote Green Party conference faces row over Zionism motion
Multiple senior figures chose not to vote, including leader Zack Polanski, and Israel's foreign ministry described the decision as a stain on UK history, saying the Greens have become a body that gives legitimacy to terrorism. Sam Holder has the story. Despite pleas from former leaders and the wider Jewish community,
ITV, ITV News, 4 October 2026, 3:58-4:08
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Charged quote Green Party conference faces row over Zionism motion
What that will mean in practice, even those who put forward the motion, don't seem totally clear on. The activities of the State of Israel are indivisible from the racist ideology that has underpinned it from day one. Nobody will be removed, challenged, disciplined, suspended because they put forward or articulate their belief in Zionism.
ITV, ITV News, 4 October 2026, 4:26-4:34
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Charged quote Green Party conference faces row over Zionism motion
can vary for many different Jews, but the right to it is something basic to Jewish identity. For that to be called racist, when we turn in synagogue towards the east, when we read about Zion in our scriptures, is in and of itself a racist act. The motion is symbolic of the new face of the party, with the Palestinian cause as a central policy,
ITV, ITV News, 4 October 2026, 5:47-5:58
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Contested quote Green Party conference faces row over Zionism motion
but there was no motion at the Green conference saying that Russia doesn't have a right to exist. So, inevitably, Jews see this motion as intrinsically anti-Semitic, whatever the Greens who put forward this motion would say, or indeed whatever the Green leadership would say. And what is quite striking is that the statement that was put out
ITV, ITV News, 4 October 2026, 7:15-7:29
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- 10:27 Story begins Conservative Party conference begins in Birmingham
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Kemi Badenoch said people would see a new Conservative Party, not the one rejected in 2024.
ITV, ITV News, 4 October 2026, 10:30-10:40
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Kemi Badenoch published a 30,000-word document called The Right Way setting out the core principles of her Conservative vision.
ITV, ITV News, 4 October 2026, 10:53-11:00
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Kemi Badenoch said she would scrap the cap on free childcare so families with someone earning over £100,000 a year can get it.
ITV, ITV News, 4 October 2026, 11:57-12:06
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