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Speaking on LBC this morning the prime minister also defended his handling of William Wragg sexting scandal
Rishi Sunak has doubled down on the UK’s decision not to suspend arms sales to Israel, echoing foreign secretary David Cameron’s words from yesterday by saying that “none of our closest allies” have stopped existing export licences.
Cameron had made the comments in Washington during a joint press conference with US secretary of state Antony Blinken.
It was a shocking tragedy what happened to our veterans when they were selflessly carrying out aid missions into Gaza and I’ve also said repeatedly the situation in Gaza is increasingly intolerable, you know, the humanitarian suffering that people are experiencing isn’t right and prime minister Netanyahu needs to do more to alleviate that. I’ve made that very clear to him.
A shoplifting crackdown is to include £55m for facial recognition tools in England and Wales. Minister Laura Farris has suggested that shoplifting is “by and large” linked to “organised crime” rather than the cost of living
After a Sky News investigation into serious offenders who have applied for asylum in the UK, Farris criticised what she described as a “merry-go-round”. Labour’s Yvette Cooper said rules needed to be tightened around sex offenders
William Wragg has finally resigned the Conservative party whip days after admitting to giving out colleagues’ personal phone numbers to someone he had met on
More than 7.4 million people in the UK struggled to pay a bill or a credit repayment in January, according to a financial regulator
Former Conservative work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith called on the Department for Work and Pensions to stop hounding people for the repayments and investigate its own responsibility for the errors
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