Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Wednesday 8 May 2019

1. Iran issues 60-day ultimatum on nuclear deal

Iran has threatened to resume its nuclear ambitions, exactly one year after US President Donald Trump withdrew from the accord to limit Iran’s nuclear development in return for the lifting of sanctions struck by his predecessor. President Hassan Rouhani said that if better terms were not struck in 60 days, he would restart uranium enrichment.

2. Theresa May to stay in office until autumn

Theresa May will hold on to the Tory leadership until the Conservative conference this September, despite intense pressure to quit, The Times predicts today. The 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs has asked the prime minister to lay out a timetable for an earlier departure, but Downing Street said yesterday that it wants a Brexit deal agreed “by the summer recess” - leaving no time to complete voting on leadership candidates until MPs return to the Commons in September.

3. Number of GPs falling across the UK

The NHS is experiencing the first sustained fall in the number of GPs in the UK for 50 years, new analysis by health charity the Nuffield Trust shows. There are now around 60 general practitioners per 100,000 people, compared with about 65 in 2014. The drop is the most significant since the late 1960s, according to the BBC, and comes as demand on GPs increases.

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4. Falklands vet ‘lost medal over sexuality’

A bisexual man who was dismissed from the Royal Navy in 1993 after 18 years of service is campaigning for the return of a service medal taken from him at his court martial. Human rights group Liberty says Joe Ousalice, 68, was was discharged “entirely because of his sexuality” and it is calling on the MoD to apologise.

5. Missing piece of Stonehenge returned at last

A piece of one of the stones that make up the neolithic monument Stonehenge has been returned to the site by a workman who took it during restoration work 60 years ago. Three metre-long core samples were drilled out in 1958, and one has since been in the keeping of engineer Robert Phillips, who later emigrated to the US. The 89-year-old has now decided to return his sample, but the whereabouts of the other two pieces are not known.

6. Uber drivers strike over firm’s ‘orgy of greed’

Uber drivers are to strike today in London, Birmingham, Nottigham and Glasgow – and further afield in New York and Los Angeles – in protest at what a union official has called an “orgy of greed”. The protesters say the ride-sharing app denies them “basic workplace rights”. Uber is to float on the US stock market tomorrow at a valuation of around $9bn (£6.9bn).

7. National survey: Britons having less sex

A survey of 34,000 Britons suggests we are having less sex now than in recent years. Researchers say the “sheer pace of modern life” may be to blame, with the most marked fall in sexual activity among over-25s and couples who live together. The figures indicate that nearly a third of British men and women have not had sex in a month.

8. Donald Trump ‘lost $1bn in one decade’

Donald Trump lost more than $1bn (£770m) in his core businesses from 1984 to 1995, enabling him to avoid paying income tax for a decade, The New York Times reports. Trump’s losses of more than $250m (£192m) in both 1990 and 1991 were double those of any other individual in an annual tax sampling of high earners, the newspaper says.

9. Liverpool come back against Barcelona

Liverpool have produced one of the greatest ever Champions League comebacks, putting them through to their second successive final in the tournament. With home support last night, the Reds overturned a 3-0 deficit from the first leg against Barcelona with four unanswered goals. It was the first such victory since the 1986 European Cup.

10. Briefing: a look back at all UKIP’s leaders

UKIP will hold another leadership election this summer. If Gerard Batten is replaced, the party will have had seven leaders since September 2016, when Nigel Farage quit after six years in charge.

In total, the party will have had 12 leaders during its 26-year history. The Week looks back at the UKIP dozen.

The UKIP dozen: a look back at all the party’s leaders