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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says Robert Jenrick was "utterly misconstrued" after the MP told TalkTV the Royal Marines would be deployed to take boats back to France and could use lethal force.
The prime minister said he asked on entering Downing Street whether there had been Russian interference in the 2016 EU referendum and received a clear answer that there was, reopening a long-dormant controversy.
The prime minister tells MPs Brexit has "done more harm than good" and refuses to rule out an in-out referendum, as opponents accuse him of relitigating a settled question.
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood has ordered an urgent independent review of the protective security the state provides to people in public life, and expanded police support with immediate effect to political figures who are not MPs, after the killing of Ann Widdecombe.
The Guardian columnist says the Reform UK home affairs spokesperson's remarks on BBC Radio 4's Today programme were 'disconnected, cliche-riddled and unremittingly stupid'.
Chris Bruni-Lowe, a close adviser to Nigel Farage, held an influential but undisclosed role at national polling company Redfield & Wilton Strategies, using it to develop possible campaign tactics, according to sources who worked there.
Reform UK has announced plans to immediately deport 90,000 asylum seekers and impose a five-year ban on granting asylum, with children and mothers excluded from any exemption. Refugee charities have called the proposals 'unworkable'.
Shadow energy secretary Andrew Bowie branded the prime minister's comments 'dangerous and divisive', while Lib Dem leader Ed Davey praised Burnham for saying what 'needed to be said by a prime minister'.
Matt Brittin told BBC employees to be 'a bit more Elvis – a little less conversation, a little more action' in an all-staff call, prompting the Guardian's Stuart Heritage to suggest other song lyrics he could draw on next.
Reform UK's economics spokesperson Robert Jenrick has cast Kemi Badenoch as the face of a metropolitan elite and warned that any coalition with his former party would be like being partnered with a zombie.
Rivals are organising for a possible byelection in Nigel Farage's Clacton seat, with speculation growing that the standards inquiry into a £5m gift is close to concluding.
Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali beat Green leader Zack Polanski in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection – a result psephologist Peter Kellner called one that 'defied history'. Writing in the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland argues the PM's rivals are handing him an easy start in No 10.
Prosecutors allege the murder of former Conservative minister Ann Widdecombe was politically and ideologically motivated, as Joshua Kerry, 28, faces a joined case over her death and a charge of preparing terrorist acts.
