Tune into Last Orders for a fierce debate between:

🔴Labour's Fabian Hamilton

🟡Lib Dem peer Dick Newby

🔵Conservative MP Robbie Moore MP

Up for discussion: Rishi Sunak's smoking ban, local elections and flooding.

After the late news on ITV News Calendar tonight.

Leeds North East MP Fabian Hamilton says Rishi Sunak's decision not to whip Tory MPs on his smoking ban bill shows 'the weakness of the leader.'

Robbie Moore MP says it's a sign PM was confident in strength of the policy.

More on Last Orders tonight.

Nat Con conference in Brussels is being closed down by police on behalf of local authorities. Our Brussels corr Lisa O'Carroll reports organisers just told delegates that shut down would be 'gradual'... not least because Suella Braverman is currently speaking on stage.

🚨 BREAKING: The government has received advice from its lawyers that Israel has breached international law but is refusing to make it public

The advice says the UK has to cease all arms sales to Israel without delay

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UN alarm and Israeli denials about famine in Gaza - our latest TV report ⁦ youtu.be/JQVeeBn46bc?fe…

More bad news for Rishi Sunak as revised official figures confirm UK *did* go into recession last year, with GDP falling by 0.3% in final quarter of 2023.

NEW: Work and Pensions Sec Mel Stride says the govt needs to 'fully and properly' consider the findings of a report that said thousands of WASPI women are owed compensation after state pension age changes

He says the DWP has 'fully co-operated' with the Ombudsman investigation

The disgraced, suspended Conservative MP Scott Benton dodges a recall petition by resigning from Parliament.

It means Rishi Sunak will now face a by-election in Blackpool South, which was last won by Labour back in 2017.

No 10 less than impressed by Jeremy Hunt's claim that £100k salary doesn't go very far in his area.

PM's spox: '£100,000 is a high salary. You can judge this government by its actions and its commitment to supporting those on the lowest incomes.”

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What do Israelis see of the conflict in Gaza?

We looked at coverage on Israeli TV channels: analysing the main evening news bulletins on the three biggest channels

Over the 5 nights we watched, not a single clip of a Palestinian in Gaza speaking about what they’re facing

BREAKING: Lease signed to take over former Doncaster Sheffield Airport.

Mayor of Doncaster Ros Jones says the plan is to return planes to the skies from the city.

It's a 125-year lease - which Jones hopes will 'secure the future of aviation in Doncaster.'

'Should second homes be banned?'

In a special live edition of the podcast, Emma Hutchinson from ITV News Anglia and Tom Sheldrick from ITV News Tyne Tees and ITV News Border tell David Wood what you need to know...

Listen here: 👇
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NEW: Barack Obama pops into Downing Street for a “courtesy” visit.

'There won't be an election on that day'

Rishi Sunak confirms there won't be an election on 2 May

Interesting response to Lee Anderson's defection from the New Conservatives - including Miriam Cates, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge.

It's critical while still leaving PLENTY of legroom for other Red Wallers like her to jump ship too...

Lee Anderson, MP for Ashfield, switched to Reform UK after being suspended from Conservative Party for saying Islamists in control of London + Sadiq Khan.

It's his 3rd Party in 6 years - quite a journey from Labour to Tory to Reform!

This is unbearable to watch - but the least we can do is hear their cries.

PM visits Yorkshire's Red Wall post budget. He knows seats like Rother Valley will be crucial in GE.

Lacklustre pitch to voters: 'I know things have been tough.'

Almost word-for-word the same as his GB News forum last month - not much spring in his post-Spring-budget step!