UK politics live: Keir Starmer pressured to scrap two-child benefit cap in King’s Speech as fired Reform member slams party

Campaigners have urged Sir Keir Starmer to take “fast steps” to repair the “damaged” Dwelling Workplace settlement scheme for EU residents within the UK.

The3million and one other 75 organisations, legislation companies, and NGOs have written to the prime minister to evaluate the the Brexit withdrawal settlement (WA).

Andreea Dumitrache, communications supervisor at the3million, stated: “If the prime minister is critical about repairing the connection between the UK and the EU, then he has a golden alternative to take action, by taking fast steps to repair the EU settlement scheme.

“We consider this may be a major present of goodwill in the direction of the EU, relieving tensions and opening the door in the direction of a greater relationship with an in depth ally.”

The letter calls the Dwelling Workplace to clear the 137,000 backlog of EU residents nonetheless ready for a choice on their standing.

With solely two days to go till the King’s Speech, Sir Keir Starmer vowed to set out his “bold agenda” and there was “no time to waste”.

The foremost occasion will unveil the Labour authorities’s legislative plans for the subsequent few years. Taking to X, previously Twitter, the prime minister stated:

David Lammy met households of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas as he continued his go to in West Jerusalem.

Images shared on social media confirmed the international minister embracing and shaking fingers with households of hostages held in Gaza.

The International Workplace stated on X, previously Twitter: “Within the West Financial institution @DavidLammy met Palestinian group members, the place he heard the affect on communities affected by settler violence and settlement growth.

“Settlements within the West Financial institution are unlawful below worldwide legislation and hurt prospects for a two-state resolution.”

The Mom of the Home has accused the federal government’s political violence tsar of a “crude effort to demonise all those that assist Palestinian rights”.

Ms Abbott slammed Lord Walney after he warned of “aggressive pro-Palestine activists” in mild of Donald Trump’s assault.

Lord Walney branded the surroundings in British politics “poisonous”.

Responding, Ms Abbott tweeted: “John Woodcock is a Boris Johnson appointment. He has no credibility. That is only a crude effort to demonise all those that assist Palestinian rights.”

Requested whether or not Mr Southgate ought to be saved on after Sunday evening’s loss to Spain within the last of Euro 2024, Ms Nandy stated: “I like him enormously and I’m positive he’ll attain a choice after spending a little bit of time interested by it.”

“But in addition to place collectively that unbelievable crew of younger footballers drawn from each group throughout the nation who look and sound and really feel like fashionable Britain.”

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Former chancellor George Osborne has revealed David Cameron’s “most nervous” second throughout his time as prime minister.

Talking on his Political Forex podcast, he stated Lord Cameron was fearful about enjoying golf with Barack Obama.

He stated: “I don’t really feel golf is such an enormous factor right here… in America it looks like each president performs golf and by the way in which, a spherical with the president is a bit of patronage, that’s actually necessary within the presidency.

“I bear in mind David Cameron performed a few rounds with Obama which I’ve to say, of all of the issues I ever noticed David, it was the factor he was most nervous about, he was like ‘oh my god, I’m enjoying golf with Obama I’m going to should go and observe’.

“However it could be a bit odd for a main minister right here to be enjoying golf.”

The well being secretary has warned he’s “treading cautiously” in his resolution to limit puberty blockers amid “a number of worry and anxiousness”.

Wes Streeting has confronted criticism from inside his personal occasion for the choice, with members of Labour’s LGBT wing writing to him on Sunday with “issues” about an indefinite ban.

Victoria Atkins, Mr Streeting’s predecessor within the former Conservative authorities, used Medicines Act 1968 powers to cease non-public or European organisations from prescribing puberty blockers to younger individuals aged below 18, if the medicine have been meant to help with gender incongruence or gender-affirming healthcare.

Marketing campaign group TransActual and a youngster who can’t be named have launched a Excessive Courtroom bid to problem the Authorities’s order.

Their barrister Jason Coppel KC had stated the previous minister “proceeded with out taking scientific or different scientific recommendation on these views and overruled officers who had needed wider session and had warned her of great impacts, together with self-harm and suicide, on extremely susceptible kids and younger individuals who had already embarked upon remedy”.

Mr Streeting took to X, previously Twitter, to elucidate his resolution to press forward with the Excessive Courtroom battle.

“Kids’s healthcare should all the time be led by proof,” the Well being Secretary wrote.

“Medication given to kids should all the time be confirmed protected and efficient first.”

The NHS doesn’t prescribe puberty blockers, which suppress younger individuals’s pure manufacturing of intercourse hormones to delay puberty, to kids as a result of “there’s not sufficient proof of security and scientific effectiveness”, in response to the well being service.

The Conservative Celebration must keep away from a lurch to the “excessive proper” because it tries to rebuild itself from its worst ever defeat, a former occasion chairman has warned.

Lord Patten, who was chairman for the profitable 1992 normal election marketing campaign the place he additionally misplaced his seat, has raised issues that the Tories will attempt to ape Nigel Farage because it seeks to win again supporters.

Writing for The Unbiased, the Tory grandee, who was additionally Britain’s final governor of Hong Kong, labelled two of the potential contenders Priti Patel and Suella Braverman as “excessive proper” and described Farage as “Tommy Robinson in a cravat” as he urged for the occasion to take time over its reset.

Ms Braverman not too long ago made headlines attacking fellow Tories as not being Conservatives and claiming the progress satisfaction flag for LGBT+ assist represents “little one mutilation”.

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