Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Saturday 1 Jul 2017

London mayor Sadiq Khan has urged the Prime Minister to appoint
commissioners to run Kensington and Chelsea council after its
leader resigned over the Grenfell Tower disaster. Nicholas
Paget-Brown said he was stepping aside to accept some
responsibility for “perceived failings” by the Conservative
council. Deputy leader, Rock Feilding-Mellen, who is also
responsible for housing, will also step down.

British households are enduring the most protracted squeeze on
living standards since 1976, reports The Guardian. As wage growth
stagnates and prices rise, incomes adjusted for inflation have now
fallen for three successive quarters. The amount being set aside as
savings is just 1.7% of disposable income – the lowest level on
record. The TUC said: “These figures make for grim reading.”

Donald Trump says he has run out of patience with North Korea
over its nuclear drive. “The era of strategic patience with the
North Korean regime has failed, many years it has failed. Frankly,
that patience is over,” the US President said at a press briefing
in the Rose Garden. Speaking alongside South Korea’s Moon Jae-In,
he said the North Korean “dictatorship” has “no respect for human
life”.

The government may install digital force fields around sensitive
buildings and bridges to stop vehicles being used in
terrorism. Following the attacks at Westminster, London Bridge
and Finsbury Park, ministers are interested in “geo-fencing”
systems that employ satellites to create electronic boundaries
around specific sites. Sweden is using the technology after an
attack in Stockholm in April.

There have been clashes as the Chinese president swore in the
new leader of Hong Kong. As it marks 20 years since its handover to
China from Britain, Carrie Lam has become the new chief executive
of the territory. The BBC reports that scuffles took place between
pro-democracy and pro-Beijing demonstrators close to the site, with
several arrests made.

The Conservatives must win over “young metropolitan” voters if
they want to win the next general election, Damian Green will say
today. Theresa May’s deputy will say that the party lost its
majority earlier this month by failing to appeal to
18-35-year-olds. He will argue that affordable homes and job
creation must be at the heart of the party’s strategy to remain in
power.

Venus Williams is being sued over a fatal car but will still be
able to play at Wimbledon. The lawsuit came a day after Palm Beach
Gardens police released a report saying Williams caused the crash,
on 9 June, that left 78-year-old Jerome Barson with a fractured
spine and other internal injuries. He died on 22 June. Wimbledon
fortnight begins on Monday.

The neckwear revolt could be spreading through Parliament as a
Liberal Democrat peer urges his male colleagues to take off their
ties in the House of Lords. Lord Scriven wants the protest to take
place in the chamber a week on Monday. However, Tory Lord Tebbit
said other members of the Lords were likely to emit “grumbles and
noises” in protest at the “exhibitionism”.

Volvo has admitted that its self-driving car is unable to detect
kangaroos because their hopping confuses its systems. Although the
Swedish carmaker’s Large Animal Detection system can identify and
avoid deer, elk and caribou, tests in Australia found it cannot
cope with the kangaroo’s movement. Kangaroo collisions on
Australia’s roads cost the insurance industry just over £44m.

A gunman killed a woman and injured at least six other people
before shooting himself at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital in New York
yesterday. The Times quotes sources identifying the man as Henry
Bello, a former employee of the Bronx hospital. He reportedly
resigned in 2015 as an alternative to being sacked over sexual
harassment allegations.