Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has asked Prime Minister Rishi Sunak why Suella Braverman has a problem "coping with points-based systems".
Sir Keir told the Commons: "The Prime Minister stood on three Tory manifestos, each one promised to reduce immigration.
Each promise broken.” Mr Sunak defended the number of work visas issued to foreign nationals, saying the last set of figures were "unique" and included many people welcomed on humanitarian grounds.
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Rishi Sunak gets very animated during a game of table football on a visit to the Burnley Boys and Girls Club with his wife Akshata. The prime minister excitedly celebrates goals, high fives his young team mate and exclaims “that’s all me” when his team concede at the other end. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Rishi Sunak compares himself to Margaret Thatcher as he resists calls from Tories to commit to tax cuts in a pre-election giveaway. The prime minister vows to prioritise measures to reduce inflation rather than taxes, insisting his is a "deeply Conservative" approach. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Rishi Sunak insists that the defence secretary's suggestion that British troops could train forces in Ukraine is not for the "here and now" during the war against the Russian invasion. The prime minister rules out UK forces going to Ukraine and says that the recently appointed Grant Shapps was discussing possible plans for the "long term". Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is heckled by a man with a loud hailer as he arrives for an interview with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg in Manchester. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Rishi Sunak has unveiled ÂŁ1bn of levelling up funding to be handed out over the next decade - but most of it is going to constituencies held by Conservative.. Sky News
Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer has defended comments he made about not wanting to diverge from European Union standards, after he was accused of wanting to “unpick Brexit”.
He said: “I have repeatedly said that there is no case for going back into the EU and that includes the Single Market and Customs Union … but that does not mean that a Labour government wants to lower standards.” Report by Buseld. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer has set out his plans to ensure the Office for Budget Responsibility assesses every major fiscal statement by the government, to avoid future market fallouts like the one sparked by Liz Truss in 2022.
During a visit to the London Stock Exchange, he said: “Just a year or so ago we had the disastrous mini-budget of Liz Truss and people are still paying the price for that and that can never be allowed to happen again.” Report by Buseld. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Sir Keir Starmer has insisted he will not allow the UK to become a "rule-taker" after his comments suggesting he did not want to diverge from EU rules sparked.. Sky News
Labour leader Keir Starmer has held what he describes as a "very constructive and positive" meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.
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Rishi Sunak claims Sir Keir Starmer's plans to seek an EU-wide returns agreement as part of a deal to help stop people smuggling gangs, could result in the UK accepting 100,000 migrants from the bloc every year. The Prime Minister tells reporters during a visit in Devon: "Keir Starmer spent all of this year voting against our stop the boats bill, the toughest legislation that any government has passed to tackle illegal migration”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting appeals to business people and "mainstream Conservative voters" to "give change a chance" and vote Labour. This comes after Richard Walker, the executive chairman of Iceland supermarket, revealed he had quit the Tory Party. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Labour's James Murray describes the government's plan to appear to be pro-motorist by criticising some 20mph zones as "pure hypocrisy" and "creating political dividing lines with themselves". The shadow financial secretary to the treasury says, “Conservative ministers are criticising 20mph zones and yet it is Conservative councils who are implementing that”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
The Labour Mayor of London and a Tory government minister have traded blows over crime in the capital after the stabbing of another teenager on the city's.. Sky News
Five Labour mayors have come together to appeal to the prime minister not to scrap the northern leg of HS2, saying such a move would lead to "economic damage".. Sky News
Anneliese Dodds says that international conventions on asylum rules are not responsible for “the chaos in the asylum system.” Instead, the Labour Party chair says that the home secretary is “searching around for anyone or anything else to blame.” Suella Braverman is expected to say that politicians need to consider whether international refugee rules are "fit for our modern age" or are in need of reform at a keynote address in the US. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Rishi Sunak says the UK has done "an incredibly good job" of integrating people from different backgrounds - days after the home secretary spoke of the.. Sky News
The United Nations has rebuked the home secretary's "concerning" criticisms of the refugee convention during her speech in Washington. Suella Braverman claimed the 1951 convention had lowered the threshold so asylum seekers only needed to prove they faced discrimination, rather than a risk of torture, violence or death. She added the international community had "failed" to modernise international laws and deal with an "existential challenge". UNHCR Representative to the United Kingdom Vicky Tennant responded to Braverman's claims saying, "the spirit of the refugee convention is very much based on international cooperation" and that it would be worrying "if there were to be serious efforts to restrict the interpretation of the refugee convention" or to step away from its obligations. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
"Many people" pretend to be gay to claim asylum in the UK, Suella Braverman has claimed, as she defended herself from criticism from Sir Elton John. Sky News
Home Secretary Suella Braverman has brushed off the suggestion that her visit to Washington DC is an attempt to boost her chances to be leader of the.. Sky News
The prime minister’s wife Akshata Murty takes a tour of the various stands inside the venue of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device near the interior ministry building in the Turkish capital Ankara on Sunday. A second assailant was “neutralised” following the bomb which wounded two police officers.
The two attackers arrived in a commercial vehicle and carried out the “terrorist attack”, interior minister Ali Yerlikaya said. The explosion happened around 09:30 (06:30 GMT), hours before parliament was scheduled to reopen following a summer recess. Report by Fatimaz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn