Prime Minister Andy Burnham has made his first significant foreign policy intervention by deciding to send RAF support to Saudi Arabia. The RAF will provide refuelling assistance to Saudi jets engaged against Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen. This decision was made on the advice of Defence Secretary Wes Streeting and Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband.
Mr Burnham is quoted by The Times as stating that facilitating oil flow will help address the cost of living. The Guardian notes that the Prime Minister plans to urge US President Donald Trump to end the conflict in Iran during their first meeting at the UN in New York City.
In domestic news, the national air traffic control system has experienced a second glitch this month, which the Metro describes as grounding "thousands" of flights. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander called the outage "deeply frustrating". Airline chiefs are reportedly calling for the head of National Air Traffic Services (Nats) to be dismissed.
Additionally, The Times reports that most inmates participating in the early release scheme will not be fitted with a monitoring tag before their release, which is set to begin on 1 October. The paper states that the Probation Service lacks the capacity to fit these tags beforehand, and released inmates will instead be tagged "once in the community".