'It's indefensible that this man was in the country' Former Conservative home secretary Suella Braverman says the Belfast attacker should never have had asylum granted, and she urged the Tory PM and cabinet at the time to leave the ECHR, but was "blocked" and "sidelined".

Meanwhile in Texas, these are high school football stadiums The European mind cannot comprehend this

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Senator Mark Kelly drew attention to a revealing fact about the approach of Donald Trump's team to Russia and Ukraine. @SenMarkKelly

Together for HOPE at our campaign day yesterday

Farage scales back press events amid scrutiny over £5mn gift from crypto investor ft.trib.al/aysXgIR

Did Keir flush them out💪 🤣 Dan Jarvis is far superior public speaker and appropriate background. Remember Healey was ex journo was he leaking 🤔 @LaindonFEMINIST

"We’ve reached a crisis point” Lib Dem leader Ed Davey says the UK needs to spend 3% of GDP on defence by 2030 and that his party will try and force a Commons vote to reveal documents about the government’s internal negotiations on the issue #BBCLauraK bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bv0…

I am flying tomorrow to Evian in France with the prime minister for what will be the most surreal summit of world leaders of his - and my - career. And that is because Keir Starmer’s tenure as prime minister is conditional on whether Andy Burnham becomes a Labour MP on Friday and then how fast he moves to unseat the PM. Starmer and his ministers do their best in public to pretend that they are governing as normal. In private his colleagues are explicit that he is in limbo, unable to have confidence that he will remain PM for many weeks or even days longer. So although this summit of the leaders of the G7 richest economies has an important agenda - re-opening and policing the Strait of Hormuz, reinforcing support for Ukraine, reducing European AI dependence on the US (so graphically manifest in Washington’s order to Anthropic to shut down Fable) - none of the leaders know if Starmer is there as the now-and-future PM or a temporary caretaker. The PM has said that he will fight Burnham if he launches a leadership challenge. But his cabinet colleagues tell me they don’t know if that is what he feels he has to say, to maintain a semblance of authority, or whether he means it. One minister tells me the prime minister would lose badly in a head-to-head contest against Burnham. “He would be humiliated” said the minister. “He has been told that. Whether he believes it is another thing.” Another minister says the mortal blow was the resignation as defence secretary, John Healey. Before Healey revealed himself to be unwilling to serve a PM unable to find the money deemed necessary by Healey to mend the UK’s overstretched defences, ministers were reluctantly rallying around Starmer. No longer. “What was half-hearted support for the PM has more-or-less gone,” said the minister. “He could try to replace those ministers he feels have been most disrespectful to him, like Ed Miliband and Shabana Mahmood, but that would probably be the final nail in his own coffin.” Starmer is seen as isolated from most of his colleagues, seeking solace and advice from his attorney general Richard Hermer and his former chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney - whose informal return to the centre of government alienates many Labour MPs, because of his central role in the debacle of Peter Mandelson’s stint as British ambassador in Washington. This period in purgatory will stretch through this week, but ministers believe the moment of Starmer’s fall or redemption will be next weekend. If Burnham wins decisively in Makerfield, reversing the seemingly decisive shift to Reform of the local elections just a few weeks ago, ministers expect that Labour MPs will want an orderly transition from Starmer to Burnham, without the chaos and uncertainty of a lengthy contested leadership election. Burnham and Starmer will therefore engage in a political dance, assessing how far the other will go to take the party to the brink of that messy contest. What happens if they can’t agree a transfer of power, if Starmer does what he says and insists Burnham puts up in a formal contest or shuts up? “That status quo could not last,” says a minister. “The prime minister’s authority is too weakened. There would be a contest, maybe triggered by another candidate.” The prime minister is said to be plotting a survival strategy, as if it were a game of chess. But none of his colleagues - or at least those to whom I have spoken - think he can win.

Our whole movement has come together in Makerfield. Great to join @labourunionsuk, activists and PLP colleagues on this crucial weekend before polling day on Thursday for @AndyBurnhamGM . Only Labour can defeat Reform’s toxic politics, and represent working people. @fbunational @CWUnews @AngelaRayner

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'We live in a country that if you are non-white, you are treated less harshly by the justice system' Former Conservative home secretary and now Reform MP, Suella Braverman, explains why her party wants to get rid of the Equality Act. trib.al/U5dGXlB