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The police were right to be worried: Not far from the mourners, a protest erupted outside a mosque on St Luke’s Road with demonstrators clashing with police and chanting slogans such as “English till I die”. Via i Newspaper News

Yvette Cooper must be the politician to get knives off the street - and the root cause needs cash to fix inews.co.uk/opinion/yvette…

NEW: Rachel Reeves has less time than she thinks before Labour MPs get restless on economic growth: “In six months to a year, that’s when things start getting tasty,” a member of the new Labour Growth Caucus tells me liveapp.inews.co.uk/2024/07/31/ree…

New Trumpton fire brigade just dropped.

NEW: The police need to act more swiftly on social media intelligence that shows rioters are planning disruption, rather than “mopping up” after the event, according to the government’s adviser on political violence and extremism, Lord Walney inews.co.uk/news/over-100-…

Stop being weird about the PM going on holiday; there’s never a good time. My column for ⁦The i paper⁩ inews.co.uk/opinion/lets-s…

A man turned up outside the damaged asylum hotel near Rotherham this evening claiming to be a journalist. He was carrying a notebook, to be fair, but he wasn’t wearing a top.

A Tory MP says the party may not elect the leader who takes it into the next election. We “might be in a place where we need ‘the one before the one’.” w/ Eleanor Langford & Chloe Chaplain inews.co.uk/news/tories-fe…

People kept asking me in person to explain the debate over the Olympic boxers, so I figured it was more efficient to write it down for The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Robert Jenrick - the man to beat to become Tory leader? Via Eleanor Langford Hugo Gye & me

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NEW: Keir Starmer will give into the EU on youth mobility - just not yet inews.co.uk/opinion/keir-s…

Emmanuel Macron can’t be the EU’s bad cop anymore given his domestic challenges - good news for Keir Starmer inews.co.uk/opinion/keir-s…

Grenfell is a tragic reminder to the Tories that regulation is not a dirty word inews.co.uk/opinion/grenfe…

The Private Members' Bill ballot was drawn today, but as MPs are urged to sponsor a bill on assisted dying the backlash against change began The debate now becomes a feature of the Tory leadership race after The i paper learns Robert Jenrick won't back it inews.co.uk/opinion/tory-l…