9:45 am today

UK: Unemployment jumps, Andrew protection probed

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am today
(FILES) Britain's Prince Andrew, Duke of York, arrives to attend a Requiem Mass, a Catholic funeral service, for the late Katharine, Duchess of Kent, at Westminster Cathedral in London on September 16, 2025. Britain's disgraced former prince Andrew failed to respond to a request from US lawmakers to be questioned about his friendship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, members of a US Congressional committed have announced. The letter asked Andrew, now known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor after King Charles III formally stripped his younger brother's titles over his ties to Epstein, to respond by November 20, 2025. (Photo by Jordan Pettitt / POOL / AFP)

Photo: AFP / JORDAN PETTITT

UK correspondent Rob Watson joins Kathryn to talk about unemployment in the UK climbing to its highest rate in five years, a by-election in Greater Manchester which could prove critical to Sir Keir Starmer's Labour party and the Met Police carrying out "initial inquiries" into protection officers on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's detail.

Rob Watson is a BBC political correspondent