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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.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says there was "insufficient protection" for people in public life, and announces an urgent independent review of security for high-profile figures including politicians and royals.
A meeting of Liberal Democrat MPs on Tuesday night could gather the signatures needed to force a confidence vote in Sir Ed Davey, the Guardian has reported, as the party weighs a seat-winning strategy against internal demands for change.
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'.
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.
BBC political editor Chris Mason reports that the Conservative Party has closed its Birmingham conference firmly behind Kemi Badenoch, yet opinion polls suggest the Tories remain more unpopular than at the last general election.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and allow couples to leave £1m tax-free.
Kemi Badenoch has wrapped up her address to the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, with BBC analysis noting her personal poll ratings are rising while the party's are not.
