"We've got a duty to be to be straight with people about the tasks that we face." Defending a new smoking ban Lucy Powell MP is challenged on Labour's pledge to "tread lightly on people's lives" by Kate McCann and Adam Boulton. 📻: shorturl.at/UhBef

“I’m voting for Kemi because I think she’s a conviction conservative.” Kemi Badenoch could be the solution for a Conservative Party that has “lost its way”, says Bob Seely. Kate McCann

I have tabled this motion on the Winter Fuel payment and I am asking other MPs to show their support 👇🏼

A former Metropolitan Police officer who served in the same unit as David Carrick and Wayne Couzens has been charged with 21 offences, including rape and sexual assault thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

Senior Israeli official: “Israel doesn’t buy arms in the UK and the defence-related purchases are of minor components that are easily obtained elsewhere. Suspending the export licenses will have no impact on Israeli military but it’s a damaging symbolic event with implications”

Just after he asks the Israeli public for forgiveness for not getting those six hostages back, Netanyahu takes the moment to literally lecture the public on the geo-strategic importance of the Philadelphi Corridor - his own barrier in blocking successful hostage negotiations.

NEW: Robert Jenrick comes out against Gov decision on arms to Israel “This is shameful gesture politics to appease the hard Left. Sir Keir has put party management first, and Britain’s interests second. “Britain should be standing with our ally Israel as it defends itself, and

Netanyahu’s promise tonight to stay in Philadelphi Corridor doesn’t just mean giving up on a deal which will save live Israeli hostages. It also puts Israel on an irreversible collision course with the US which insists on full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza at the end of the war.

Things I didn’t expect to hear on Times Radio this morning, William Hague: “I secretly buy handbags”

Tom Tugendhat was just cut off at his own leadership launch when music randomly started playing while he was taking questions. The faces of his campaign supporters speak volumes…

More maiden speeches in the Commons today. Lovely to watch former colleague Paul Waugh MP do his and enjoying Charlie Dewhirst MP giving Giant Bradley Day a shoutout - a festival celebrating a very tall man called Bradley in a town close to where I grew up.

Think Starmer accidentally called Sunak Prime Minister again just now. Old habits.

And again! Twice in five minutes.

“Who trained you to do this?” she asks one day. “Do what?” “Look after people...” “I learnt from my mother.” Mum considers my words for a moment and then, “She must have been a very kind woman.” “She was.” I smile. “I was very lucky.” The most beautiful, heartbreaking writing

After criticism of her dancing in a club in Ibiza Angela Rayner said she's always careful to prove her worth as a minister. But why does she feel she has to? Why discussions about class are always really about power: inews.co.uk/opinion/what-r…

Opinion I What you really mean when you criticise Angela Rayner’s dancing 🖋️ Kate McCann trib.al/59fGTBN

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NEW: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage told Times Radio that although it would be “cheaper” to send prisoners to Estonia, he would instead deport 10k foreign nationals “and we'll then have a lot of room” in British prisons.