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Lords to debate whether it should delay ratification of UK-Rwanda treatyThe Post Office Horizon IT scandal has placed into sharper focus the number of bodies that can bring prosecutions, and the TV Licensing authority is one of them. Possibly not for much longer, if the words of culture secretary Lucy Frazer this morning carry any weight.She said it is not appropriate for the BBC...

Shadow foreign secretary tries to continue as demonstrators shout and criticise Labour’s stance on Israel-Gaza warMiddle East crisis – live updatesA keynote speech by David Lammy at a Labour-linked thinktank’s conference has been disrupted by protesters who held Palestinian flags as they shouted “ceasefire now”.As security officials at London’s Guildhall rushed to take the first two individuals out of the building, another three protesters...

Exclusive: London mayoral elections in May will be ‘toughest fight yet’, Khan will tell Fabian’s Society conferenceSadiq Khan will urge voters not to “let the Tories do to London what they’ve done to our country”, as he hits out at the “hollow, desperate and divisive narrative” put forward by the party.Launching the Fabian’s Society conference on Saturday with a keynote speech, the London mayor...

Defence secretary dismisses poll, saying things will change by time general election takes placeGood morning. News organisations, including the Guardian, tend to be a bit wary of splashing on opinion polls. Polls are never 100% reliable, there is a good case for saying they constrain political reporting (because if journalists assume X can’t win, they don’t cover what X might do if they were...

The rightwing populist party could play an outsize role in the next UK election – and cost the Conservatives dearly“A sinking ship” was how Antonia, an administrator from Middleton, described Britain at the start of 2024. That assessment, while damning, isn’t unusual, with “broken”, “mess” and “struggling” the top words used to describe the UK today. But Antonia, and her fellow focus group participants...

Wes Streeting says he is shocked by the extent to which the health and wellbeing of the nation’s children has declinedGood morning. Keir Starmer will today start a series of fortnightly visits around Britain intended to promote Labour’s “missions”, and today he is in the north-west of England launching the party’s child health action plan. He has written about the proposals for the Guardian...

Shadow chancellor to highlight increased mortgage costs as party targets Tory seats coveted by Lib DemsLabour is to kick off campaigning in a string of upcoming byelections by highlighting increased mortgage costs in so-called blue wall constituencies, in a tactical shift in which the party will openly target Conservative-held seats coveted by the Liberal Democrats.Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, is to visit Kingswood, the...

Kevin Hollinrake, the minister for postal services, says a government announcement on the scandal is imminent Good morning. Cabinet is meeting for the first time this year and, among its other problems, the government is still under pressure to announce something definitive about the Post Office Horizon scandal that will show it is responding to the outrage generated by the ITV drama about the...