Er … Tory MP says voters in Ashfield should vote for Reform UK’s Lee Anderson.

Amazing stuff.

NEW: Understand that William Wragg has stepped down as chair of PACAC Committee and as vice chairman of the Tory backbench 1922 committee

BREAKING NEWS: Former Sen. Joe Lieberman has died at 82.

The Stamford, Conn., native died from complications from a fall, his family said.

🚨BREAKING: Ex-Tory MP Scott Benton has resigned as an MP with immediate effect

Another by-election for Rishi Sunak

ALERT -- MTG has walked out of the chamber.....Doesn't seem as if she will as for privilege today. So this will remain in the hopper.

Marjorie Taylor Greene files Motion to Vacate against Speaker Johnson

Here we go again...

Ouch

BREAKING: Government LOSES first Rwanda Bill amendment vote of the day in the House of Lords by 271 votes to 228.

The amendment, in the name of Labour's Lord Coaker, would require the Bill to have regard to domestic and international law.

🚨 NEW 🚨

After today's polls from Deltapoll and Redfield & Wilton, the Conservative Party is now polling *LOWER* than at any point under Lizz Truss' Premiership, at just 22.9%.

electionmaps.uk/polling

BREAKING: Former US president President Obama has arrived at Number 10 for an undisclosed private meeting

Barack Obama has just gone into 10 Downing Street

Sunday Express: FARAGE PLOTS SUNAK'S DEMISE #TomorrowsPapersToday

Former Vice President Mike Pence says he will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year.

Sky News has clipped up the *46* times Diane Abbott rose to try and ask a question at PMQs - ultimately unsuccessfully.

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NEW: Former Tory chair Chris Patten tells Times Radio 'it's pretty open and shut' for Tories to give £10mil back to donor Frank Hester.

Tells John Pienaar 'if he's made remarks which are racist, how can you in a reasonable way take 10 million smackers of his money?'

More @ 5pm

Iceberg.

🚨 NEW: Rishi Sunak's spox now says Sunak thinks Frank Hester's alleged remarks about Diane Abbot were 'racist and wrong'

The same spox repeatedly refused to say until now - about an hour after Kemi Badenoch broke ranks to call the remarks racist

Sunak intends to keep the £10m

Lee Anderson defects to Reform UK