Thursday briefing: Could the ‘uncommitted vote’ over Gaza cost Joe Biden at the polls?

In today’s newsletter: What the results in Michigan may mean for the Democratic party’s prospects in the US election

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Over the next two newsletters I’ll look at very two different elections that are thousands of miles apart but similarly fractured by the war in Gaza. Today we will be in a midwestern state in the US, and tomorrow we’ll be in a small town in the north of England. Stay tuned.

Health | Ultra-processed food (UPF) is directly linked to 32 harmful effects including a higher risk of heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, adverse mental health and early death, according to the world’s largest review of its kind.

Conservatives | More than half of party members believe Islam is a threat to the British way of life, according to a poll that sheds light on the hostility with which large parts of the party view the country’s second-biggest religion.

Education | Taking an unauthorised family holiday is about to get more expensive, with the government announcing that fines for children in England missing school are to rise by 33%. Under the new rules, the initial penalty notices will be raised from £60 to £80, if paid within 21 days. Those who delay payment will have fines raised from £120 to £160.

Israel-Gaza war | Israel has stopped issuing visas for international staff of humanitarian organisations that work in occupied Palestinian territories, hampering efforts to get food and other vital supplies into Gaza, forcing dozens of foreign aid works to leave or risk deportation.

Budget | Jeremy Hunt is considering scrapping Britain’s non-domiciled tax rules in next week’s budget, it has been reported, in a move that would see him poach one of Labour’s key fiscal policies that he has previously criticised. Abolishing the non-dom tax regime would raise an estimated £3.6bn a year.