Badenoch defends seeking a ban on pro-Palestine marches but not Tommy Robinson ones – as it happened

Badenoch defends wanting to ban pro-Palestine marches for spreading hate, but not Tommy Robinson ones

Kemi Badenoch also used her Today interview to defend her argument that pro-Palestine marches should be banned because they platform antisemitism, but that marches organised by the far-right activist Tommy Robinson should be allowed.

When it was put to Badenoch that the Robinson marches were a platform for anti-Muslim hate, Badenoch said that the marches were “different”, and that two Jewish men were killed at Heaton Park synagogue last year and that another two Jewish men were almost killed in Golders Green last week.

When it was put to her that Muslims might feel threatened by some of the things said at a Robinson event, she insisted that the two sorts of marches were “not the same”.

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Criticism of religion is allowed in this country. We mustn’t mix the two things.

I am talking about the attacks on Jews. It’s not the faith that’s being attacked, it’s the people.

And I do have to ask, why is it that whenever we’re talking about Jewish hatred, we always have what about, what about?

When something happens to black people, no one does the whataboutery. When something does happen to Muslims, we don’t say what about antisemitism?

Why do we have this double standard that, whenever there’s an issue with antisemitism and Jews being attacked, we have to broaden it out all the time.

The former Green leader Caroline Lucas has called for the party to take immediate action against candidates who have made antisemitic comments or posts, following a series of cases before Thursday’s elections.

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Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, has defended her argument that that pro-Palestine marches should be banned because they platform antisemitism, but that marches organised by the far-right activist Tommy Robinson should be allowed. (See 12.57pm.) She was speaking in an interview on the Today programme where she also questioned whether the undisclosed £5m donation given to Nigel Farage by a crypto billionaire meant that he has been “bought” (see 12.33pm), and described Donald Trump as ‘very erratic” (see 12.40pm). Badenoch also criticised Trump for not having a plan for Iran. Responding to her comments about Trump, Calum Miller, the Lib Dem foreign affairs spokesperson, said:

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This is the height of hypocrisy from Kemi Badenoch, who was only too happy initially to cheer on Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s idiotic war. She only highlights her own lack of foresight when she was a cheerleader for a conflict, and now expresses concern about the lack of a strategy once the consequences become politically inconvenient.

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Labour should not be “doomscrolling” through leaders like the Conservatives, the communities secretary, Steve Reed, has said, urging MPs not to move against Keir Starmer after the May elections.

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For a full list of all the stories covered on the blog today, do scroll through the list of key event headlines near the top of the blog.

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Britain has announced new sanctions aimed at Russian networks trafficking people from Africa and the Middle East to fight in Ukraine. In a news release, the Foreign Office says:

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The UK has announced a raft of new sanctions to curb production of Russian drones and the nefarious networks that are exploiting vulnerable migrants from across the globe to support Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine. The latest action hits 35 individuals and entities, including those responsible for human trafficking networks, funnelling exploited migrants into Russia’s war machine.

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Networks sanctioned by the UK have been deceptively recruiting foreign migrants in search of a better life and either sending them to the front line as cannon fodder or putting them to work in weapons factories. This includes through schemes like Russia’s Alabuga Start programme for drone production at a UK-sanctioned entity.

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The Campaign Against Antisemitism has criticised the measures announced by Keir Starmer at his No 10 summit today as too limited. The organisation, which is more confrontational towards government than some of the other groups campaigning against antisemitism, was not invited to attend. In a statement, it described the event as a “choreographed spectacle that puts words before action”. It said:

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Days after we stood outside Downing Street calling on the prime minister to present a plan to tackle antisemitism, this is a start. We note that he has adopted some of our language and his acknowledgment that antisemitism comes not just from the far-right but also from the far-left and Islamism.

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But most of what is being announced is merely a programme of telling the authorities to do the jobs they were supposed to have been doing for years. The police have had the powers to ban marches all along, and it should not have taken a spate of stabbings and arson attacks for the Charity Commission to act against extremist mosques or for the Arts Council to stop funding venues that spread hate.

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It is absurd that basic steps have still not been announced today. We all know that Iran is a malign influence in this country, so why hasn’t the IRGC been proscribed and its ambassador expelled? The prime minister has been in office for almost two years, and it’s been half a year since the Manchester terrorist murders so why is he merely pointing to ongoing reviews of indeterminate length, without taking obvious action right now, for example banning the Muslim Brotherhood?

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We suspect that avoiding these questions is why the prime minister did not invite the UK’s largest antisemitism campaigning charity to his event at Downing Street today. He probably knows that we would play no part in any choreographed spectacle that puts words before action. Now is not the time to be avoiding uncomfortable truths and hard questions.

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The Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council issued their own joint statement (see 1.39am) also saying the measures announced today did not go far enough. But, overall, they were considerably more positive about what the summit achieved.

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Going to war in not a local authority responsibility. But, unusually for local elections, Labour has decided to put Iran, and in particular Keir Starmer’s decision not to give the US British military support, at the centre of its third and final party political broadcast (PPB) for England going out tonight.

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Summing up the message of the broadcast, Labour says:

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Both Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch initially wanted to throw Britain headfirst into war with Iran and have since u-turned on their position as the consequences of the conflict at home and abroad began to emerge.

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On 2 March, after the US-Israeli action first began, Badenoch warned the government that there was “no point wanting action to make the world a safe place while being too scared to stand by and watch others”. Two days later, the Tory Leader told Labour MPs: “we are in this war whether they like it or not. What is the prime minister waiting for?”. Less than a week later, Badenoch shamelessly U-turned, saying she “never said we should join” the war.

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On 2 March, Reform Leader Nigel Farage said Britain should do “all we can to support the operation”, before undertaking a humiliating U-turn just over a week later, while appearing to criticise the state of British armed forces in the process, stating the military could not “offer anything of value” to the operation.

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Plunging Britain into the war in Iran could have deepened the consequences felt here in Britain on the cost of living – just at a time when too many families are feeling under real pressure. Many voters have also grown concerned over Green Party Leader Zack Polanski’s ambition for the UK to leave Nato, putting at risk Britain’s global alliances at a time when national security is of the upmost importance in the face of international volatility.

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The PPB will quote mothers of men serving in the armed forces as saying they are glad that Badenoch and Farage were not in power and able to send their sons to war.

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And it will feature Starmer saying:

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Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch wanted to jump into the war with both feet without thinking through the consequences.

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I did as I will always do – what is right for Britain.

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The SNP is “within touching distance” of winning an overall majority at Holyrood, John Swinney insisted, as he called on Scots to “make it happen”. As the Press Association reports, the SNP leader made the plea as he urged people across the country to re-elect him as first minister in Thursday’s election, declaring that rival parties have “nothing to offer” the country. PA says:

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Pledging he would “get things done” if voted back into the post in Thursday’s election, the SNP leader also sought to contrast his leadership with that of Keir Starmer at Westminster.

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He condemned the prime minister’s government for having “done absolutely nothing to help” in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis that Mr Swinney said had left some Scots “really struggling”.

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The first minister pledged: “That is not the approach I will ever take.”

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With food, energy and fuel prices all rising, he insisted an SNP government under his leadership would do “everything we can to support people through these tough times”.

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He made the direct appeal to voters in an open letter issued ahead of Thursday’s Scottish parliament election.

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Polls have suggested the SNP are on track to remain in the largest party – but Swinney is also seeking to win an overall majority in a bid to try to force a second vote on Scottish independence.

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He said: “I think that we are so close to doing that – it is within touching distance. But we have to make it happen.”

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Caroline Lucas, who was the Green party’s only MP from 2010 and 2024 and who did three stints as co-leader, has posted this on social media about the revelations about some Green candidates making antisemitic comments.

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Statements that have now come to light from a handful of @TheGreenParty candidates are totally unacceptable & require immediate action. There’s no place for anti-semitism or any hate speech in the party. This is a society-wide problem & needs to be rooted out wherever it’s found

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The party says it is taking these accusations seriously, and disciplinary action has been taken in some instance. But it has also implied that the problem is being exaggerated by the Greens’ opponents. Lucas’s tone is different.

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Lisa O’Carroll is a senior Guardian correspondent covering trade and post-Brexit affairs.

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The UK’s relationship with the EU matters “more than ever” given the “global challenges” Europe as a continent is facing, the European affairs minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has said.

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As European leaders meet in Armenia to discuss the importance of beefing up the European arm of Nato and the withdrawal of some US troops from Germany and potentially Italy and Spain, Thomas-Symonds told EU ambassadors gathered in London they were the UK’s central priority.

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He said:

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As I stand here today, representing a UK government that has made reconnecting with our European partners a central priority, I feel the strength of that legacy, and believe in the importance of nations working together.

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We passionately believe that a strong Europe is good for the UK – and a strong UK is good for Europe.

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We are neighbours by geography and partners by choice.

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As we look at the global challenges we face collectively – war on mainland Europe, war in the Middle East and the global structures we’ve relied on being tested – we believe that UK-EU relationship matters even more than ever.

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Thomas-Symonds was speaking at a Europe Day event in Smith Square hosted by the outgoing EU ambassador Pedro Serrano.

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Zack Polanski’s approval rating has fallen sharply over the past week, a poll suggests, coinciding with the controversy about his reposting a message suggesting the police used excessive force when they arrested the Golders Green stabbing suspect.

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According to the More in Common figures, Polanski’s net approval rating, at -27, is still much higher than Keir Starmer’s, at -45.

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But it is lower than it has been at any point since he took over as Green leader in September, and over the past week it has plummeted. Polanski was at -13 a week ago.

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Commenting on the figures, Luke Tryl, director of More in Common UK, said:

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n

Just looking over some data ahead of our elections webinar later and Zack Polanski’s net approval rating has fallen by a fairly chunky 14 points over the last week. Still far ahead of Starmer but also puts him now well below the top three of Badenoch, Davey and Farage.

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n

Looking at the numbers it’s both a rise in negatives and a fall in positives, in particular more young people seem to have shifted from “good job” to “neither good nor bad job”. So a mix of more disapproval and more uncertainty.

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At the Downing Street lobby briefing, the PM’s spokesperson did not deny a report in the Financial Times saying that Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, and Scott Bessent, her US opposite number, had a “fierce row” about the Iran war when they met in Washington last month.

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In their FT story, Jim Pickard, Sam Fleming and Claire Jones say:

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n

When the pair met later that day [after Reeves told a CNBC event she did not know why the Americans started the war] Bessent berated Reeves over the remarks, according to people familiar with the situation.

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The Treasury secretary insisted the world was safer because of the US-Israeli war against Iran, even invoking the spectre of Tehran launching a nuclear attack on London. Reeves responded angrily by telling Bessent she did not work for him and disliked how he had spoken to her.

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She also reiterated her argument about the Iran conflict lacking clear goals and not necessarily making the world safer.

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The FT also said that Reeves and Bessent had spoken since the incident, and that on other issues they worked well together.

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Asked about the story, the spokesperson said:

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n

Although I wouldn’t get into private conversations, the chancellor and the US Treasury Secretary have a good relationship. They have had constructive conversations together since the chancellor’s visits to Washington. There is a readout from the US Department of the Treasury, which made clear the productive nature of their relationship.

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UPDATE: Here is Kiran Stacey’s story about this.

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At the Downing Street lobby briefing the PM’s spokesperson said that more than 90 people attended the antisemitism summit in No 10 this morning. They included people from businesses (including the CBI, Barclays, PWC), the media (including the BBC, Channel 4), arts groups (including the National Theatre, the Arts Council), the police (including from the Met, Greater Manchester police and the NPCC), community groups (including the Board of Deputies and the Community Safety Trust), the university sector (including Universtities UK and Union of Jewish Students), the NHS and Ofcom.

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And the ministers attending included Steve Reed, the communities secretary, Wes Streeting, the health secretary, Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, Lord Stockwood, the investment minister, and Miatta Fahnbulleh, the faith and communities minister.

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Speaking about the meeting, the spokesperson said:

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We are determined to make Jewish people in this country feel safe again.

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I think, as the housing secretary said, people being anxious and afraid of being Jewish, people being afraid to wear the traditional Jewish skull cap or women being afraid to wear necklaces with the star of David. None of this can be acceptable in our society and it requires a whole society response to tackling it.

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But the spokesperson was unable to say what would happen to universities that failed to comply with the new requirement to show what they were doing to tackle antisemitism. (See 10.41am.) Asked about this, the spokesperson said:

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In terms of next steps we’ll set them out in due course.

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We already expect universities to set out clear disciplinary consequences for antisemitism and to enforce them, and so we will hold them to account on that.

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Journalists also questioned why social media companies were not invited, given the role they play in allowing the spread of antisemitism. The spokesperson said that Ofcom was there.

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When it was put to her that Muslims might feel threatened by some of the things said at a Robinson event, she insisted that the two sorts of marches were “not the same”.

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Criticism of religion is allowed in this country. We mustn’t mix the two things.

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I am talking about the attacks on Jews. It’s not the faith that’s being attacked, it’s the people.

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And I do have to ask, why is it that whenever we’re talking about Jewish hatred, we always have what about, what about?

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When something happens to black people, no one does the whataboutery. When something does happen to Muslims, we don’t say what about antisemitism?

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Why do we have this double standard that, whenever there’s an issue with antisemitism and Jews being attacked, we have to broaden it out all the time.

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In her Today interview, Kemi Badenoch also described Donald Trump as ‘very erratic”. Having in the past been reluctant to say anything negative about him, recently she has become increasingly critical. She told the programme:

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n

The issue with Donald Trump is that he’s very erratic.

n

Even where you agree with him on what he is wanting to do, the way he goes about doing those things is very problematic.

n

A lot of his rhetoric, especially against allies, I do not like.

n

The relentless criticism of allies, whether it’s the UK or other European countries, only benefits Russia and Iran.

n

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Kemi Badenoch has questioned whether the undisclosed £5m donation given to Nigel Farage by a crypto billionaire shows that he has been “bought”.

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In an interview with the Today programme this morning, the Conservative leader asked whether the donation was linked to Farage’s support for cryptocurrencies, and she said the donation showed why Farage could not be trusted as a political leader.

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In the Guardian last week Anna Isaac revealed that, shortly before the 2024 general election, Farage received £5m from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne.

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There was nothing illegal about the gift. But once he became an MP Farage was obliged to register gifts that were, or might be thought to be, related to his political activity. Farage did not do that, and he has argued that he did not need to because the gift was entirely personal, intended to cover his security costs for the rest of his life.

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In her Today interview, when it was put to her that rightwing voters wanting to get rid of Labour might be better of voting for Reform UK, Badenoch said:

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n

Let’s see, I believe that people should look at the character of an individual.

n

You look at Nigel Farage’s fishy £5m. I think that’s a very, very concerning story. No one gets £5m directly. This was not for his party. He kept it a secret. What was that money for? Who’s bought him?

n

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When it was put to Badenoch that Farage insists this was just a personal gift, she went on:

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n

Well, I don’t understand why somebody who works in crypto gives this sort of personal gift, as Farage calls it, and then all of a sudden Farage is promoting crypto.

n

He should have declared it. We’ve already made a report to the standards committee. He should have declared it because those are the rules in this country.

n

He is not someone who plays by the rules. I play by the rules.

n

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Harborne, who also give Reform UK £12m in 2025 (which was declared properly), has said that Farage was out of politics at the time he gave him the £5m. At that point Farage had not yet announced he would be a candidate in the 2024 election and had not yet resumed his leadership of Reform UK. Harborne told the Telegraph: “I wasn’t expecting anything in return apart from ensuring [Farage’s] safety.” Farage has also insisted that this donation was personal, and that, even in relation to the declared political donations, Harborne had not asked for anything in return.

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At the weekend Badenoch also claimed there was something “fishy” about the Harborne donation, and she claimed that it explained why Farage at the last minute ducked an invitation to appear on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show.

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Why did Farage run scared from news interviews today?

It’s because there’s something fishy about the £5 million he took. And he knows it.

He’s normally very happy to shout from a TV studio -as long as he controls the terms.

The truth is that cash wasn’t for Reform.
Watch👇 pic.twitter.com/OhMJrwYnZX

— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) May 3, 2026

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Last month the Guardian published a long investigation by Tom Burgis exploring the links between Farage and Harborne.

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Keir Starmer is now a “sitting duck” because a leadership challenge is “inevitable” after the elections this week, a union leader has said.

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Steve Wright, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, made the comment in an interview with Simon Fletcher, a former aide to Ken Livingstone, Jeremy Corbyn and (briefly) Starmer, published on Fletcher’s Modern Left Substack blog.

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Wright first publicly called for Starmer to go in February, and he told Murphy that he now thought a contest could not be avoided.

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Wright, whose union is affiliated to Labour, said:

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n

If [the election results are] as bad as all the polls suggest – I’m not a betting, man, but I’m sure they’re not going to be great, are they – I think Starmer should stand down.

n

I think he should have stood down a couple of months ago and given me, others, Labour activists, people that are proud of the Labour party, an opportunity to try and win round some people. It would have been hard, but I think without him there, we could have probably done something.

n

So I think he will go. I think there will be calls for him to go. We just need to have been in a position to try and shape that. It’s inevitable now, isn’t it? I think he’s a bit of a sitting duck.

n

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In the interview Wright did not endorse an alternative candidate for Labour leader. He said he was more interested in establishing “a set of principles” the government should follow in the next three years before an election has to take place.

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But he said that under Starmer the unions had been sidelined, and he said people wanted an end to austerity and real change. He explained:

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n

For us in the fire service, with our wages and also with the lack of funding and investment in public services, it’s just been austerity mark II.

n

I’ve no criticism of why people are looking for alternatives. They’re either turning to Reform because they’re providing an alternative narrative – the wrong one, I think – or they’re turning to the Greens as some kind of saviour of working-class people. And I certainly don’t think the Green party or Zack Polanski are the saviours of that.

n

I think we need to take back ownership of the Labour party and what we really know it stands for, and make sure it starts delivering for working people.

n

And I’m quite angry that the party’s got in this position we find ourselves in, but I’m certainly not going to walk away from that. I’m going to try and change it from within.

n

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In his speech Keir Starmer also said that, if arts organisations platform antisemitism, the Arts Council “must act using its powers to suspend, withdraw and clawback funding”.

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And he announced a review into whether this is happening properly. He went on:

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n

And today we’re mandating an independent audit of how allegations are handled. This will be a hard-edged review of where systems are failing and where they need to be strengthened.

n

We will not and cannot accept complacency, delays or weak enforcement.

n

And where complacency is found. It will be challenged and addressed swiftly.

n

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Keir Starmer has said that universities will now be expected to publish information about the scale of antisemitism on their campuses, and what they are doing to tackle it.

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He made the announcement in a speech at the antisemitism summit in No 10. He told the civic leaders in his audience.

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n

We’re rolling out antisemitism training for staff and in our schools, colleges and universities. We’re investing £7m to tackle antisemitism while making sure Holocaust education is taught in all schools.

n

And today, we’re going further.

n

We already expect universities to set out clear disciplinary consequences for antisemitism and to enforce them. And so we will hold them to account on that.

n

But today I can announce that we will lift the bar higher when abuses take place. We’re calling on universities to demonstrate action. We will now expect them to publish the scale of the problem on their campuses, as well as the specific steps they have taken to clamp down on it. There will be zero tolerance for inaction.

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Zack Polanski, the Green party leader, posted these on social media this morning. They seem to be a response at least in part to the antisemitism attack ad launched by Labour yesterday. (See 8.41am and 9.16am.)

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When you see the relentless attacks from other parties on the Greens across the media remember this:

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They hate our plan to end Rip Off Britain.

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They don’t want a wealth tax.

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They don’t want public ownership & lower bills.

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They’re trying everything in their power to stop us.

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It’s not going to work.

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They have deep pockets.

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We have people power and a plan to change our country.

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Steve Reed, the housing secretary, has warned that Labour risks “annihilation” if it gets rid of Keir Starmer and holds another leadership contest.

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He delivered this message as he did a media interview round this morning. As Pippa Crerar reports in this overnight story, what Reed was saying in public echoes what multiple cabinet ministers have been telling the Guardian in private about the dangers of a leadership contest.

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Reed told Times Radio:

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I speak to a lot of my fellow MPs, of course I do, all the time, but also council leaders, and they’re sick and tired of all this psychodrama … The whole notion that we would copy the Conservatives and go doomscrolling through leaders in a way that means the government is completely incapable of dealing with the things that matter to most of the British public is absolute nonsense, and I’m not going to engage in it, and most of our MPs would not engage in that either.

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Jessica Elgot has more on that interview here.

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And, in an interview on Sky News, Reed said that another leadership election would be disastrous for Labour. He said:

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We can’t be like the Tories and doomscroll through leaders. It ends in annihilation. We’ve got to focus on the British public, not ourselves.

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In his Sky News interview, Reed also said that he had dinner with Angela Rayner, the former deputy PM, on Saturday – but he claimed they did not discuss whether she might run for the leadership. “Sometimes even we politicians talk about other things,” he said. But he did say “in time” he would like to see her back in cabinet.

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The next Scottish government will need to make “really difficult” spending decisions soon after taking power, including tackling its large public sector pay bill, senior economists have said. Severin Carrell has the story.

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Steve Reed, the environment secretary, has been giving interviews this morning. As well as promoting the (small) funding announcement for councils dealing with antisemitism (see 8.41am), he has also been reviving the Labour attack on the Green party over their handling of antisemitism in their party (see 9.16am).

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Reed, a former leader of Lambeth council who now represents Streatham and Croydon North (which covers parts of Lambeth), told GB News:

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We need the Green party to do what the Labour Party did and kick out members of their party who are openly antisemitic. In my borough, where my constituency is, two Green Party candidates have been arrested for allegations of stirring up racial hatred.

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Instead of condemning them, the Green party has put out a letter saying that the Labour party is spreading cynical misinformation.

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These people were arrested for hate crimes targeting the Jewish community. One of them was back out on the doorsteps this weekend. We have photographic evidence of knocking on doors now.

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Zack Polanski, come on, these people are spreading antisemitic hatred. You cannot put them up for election.

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You cannot back them, and you cannot shut your eyes and pretend this problem doesn’t exist. We only tackle racism by calling it out and stopping it. And all of us have a responsibility to do that.

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Good morning. Keir Starmer has declared antisemitism “a crisis for all of us”. This morning he is hosting an event in Downing Street intended to get leaders across all areas of public life to address the problem and, according to the briefing from No 10, he will say:

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Last week’s terrorist attack in Golders Green was utterly appalling. But it was not an isolated incident. It is part of a pattern of rising antisemitism that has left our Jewish communities feeling frightened, angry, and asking whether this country, their home, is safe for them.

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These disgusting attacks are being made against British Jews. But, make no mistake, this crisis – it is a crisis for all of us. It is a test of our values. Values that are not guaranteed, but are earned. Every single day, through our actions.

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Here is Pippa Crerar and Aamna Mohdin’s overnight story about this.

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And here is the overnight news release.

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Last week, after the attack in Golders Green, the government announced an extra £25m “to boost police patrols, specialist officers, and protective security for Jewish communities – taking total funding to £58m, as well as £7m to tackle antisemitism in schools, colleges and universities”. This morning the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has announced a smaller funding boost for councils to coincide with the No 10 event. It says:

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Jewish communities across England will receive a further £1m of government funding to tackle antisemitism and strengthen community cohesion in those places facing the greatest risk.

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An immediate £500,000 will also be allocated to Barnet council, reflecting recent serious antisemitic incidents in the borough and the large number of Jewish residents there.

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There has been an alarming rise in antisemitism both in this country and across much of the globe, including the horrific antisemitic terrorist attacks in Heaton Park and Bondi Beach last year, and an appalling spate of antisemitic attacks in North West London in recent weeks.

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To tackle this, the additional funding being announced today will expand MHCLG’s Common Ground programme – which is already providing more than £4m to communities across the country.

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The money can be used by councils on measures to counter antisemitism.

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Here is the agenda for the day.

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Morning: Keir Starmer hosts a meeting in Downing Street to discuss how to implement a whole-of-society response to rising antisemitism.

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Morning: Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, is campaigning in Suffolk. In the afternoon she is in Coventry.

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Noon: Downing Street holds a lobby briefing.

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Noon: Paul Ovenden, Starmer’s former head of political strategy in No 10, speaks at a Policy Exchange event on how to reshape Britain.

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Afternoon: Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, visits a synagogue in central London.

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5pm: Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, and the party’s Welsh leader, Dan Thomas, speak at a rally in south Wales with a “special guest”.

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The former Green leader Caroline Lucas has called for the party to take immediate action against candidates who have made antisemitic comments or posts, following a series of cases before Thursday’s elections.

Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, has defended her argument that that pro-Palestine marches should be banned because they platform antisemitism, but that marches organised by the far-right activist Tommy Robinson should be allowed. (See 12.57pm.) She was speaking in an interview on the Today programme where she also questioned whether the undisclosed £5m donation given to Nigel Farage by a crypto billionaire meant that he has been “bought” (see 12.33pm), and described Donald Trump as ‘very erratic” (see 12.40pm). Badenoch also criticised Trump for not having a plan for Iran. Responding to her comments about Trump, Calum Miller, the Lib Dem foreign affairs spokesperson, said:

This is the height of hypocrisy from Kemi Badenoch, who was only too happy initially to cheer on Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s idiotic war. She only highlights her own lack of foresight when she was a cheerleader for a conflict, and now expresses concern about the lack of a strategy once the consequences become politically inconvenient.

Labour should not be “doomscrolling” through leaders like the Conservatives, the communities secretary, Steve Reed, has said, urging MPs not to move against Keir Starmer after the May elections.

For a full list of all the stories covered on the blog today, do scroll through the list of key event headlines near the top of the blog.

Kemi Badenoch on a campaign visit to Alucast Ltd near Wolverhampton today. Photograph: Cameron Smith/Getty Images

Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, visiting Western Marble Arch synagogue in central London this afternoon. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

This is from Stephen Bush, the Financial Times political commentator, on the Keir Starmer antisemitism speech this morning.

Keir Starmer’s response is almost everything I feared, just a big list of “things have never been worse. Time to press the same buttons as yesterday”

And here is an extract from Bush’s FT column this morning, where he suggests what a whole-of-society approach to tackling antisemitism should look like.

What defeats racism is the willingness of civic society and the state to proselytise against it. It is weakened when people feel ashamed to express racist statements in public. And what strengthens racism is an erosion of the general principle that you cannot or should not punish individuals for the real or perceived crimes of an ethnic or religious group, and the creation of an environment where racist statements are aired without embarrassment.

It was not an accident that the religious intolerance that saw Catholic Europe launch crusades against Orthodox Christianity and the Muslim world coincided with a decline in the condition of Jews in Europe. Similarly, the emboldening of racism of all stripes in the UK today has gone hand in hand with the rise of specifically anti-Jewish racism.

The lesson of the past is clear: seeing racism as the reaction to events overseas, or to economic dislocation, is wrong-headed. Such events only trigger increases in racism if societies haven’t done enough to stamp out and condemn its latent appeal.

From my colleague Peter Walker on Bluesky

At a No 10 briefing today we heard about the government’s commitment to “a whole-of-society response to antisemitism”. Asked if this might involve the government leaving X, where antisemitism is not only rife but monetlised, we were told it is “something we always keep under review.” So: no.

Jewish News has published the full text of the speech given by Louis Danker, president of the Union of Jewish Students, at the No 10 antisemitism summit this morning. Here is an excerpt.

I’ve been reassured this past week by the non-Jewish family friend who asked how he could do a CST security shift, by the online influencers eating at Jewish-run restaurants in Golders Green, and by the university leaders asking what more they can do to support their students.

These small acts need to be scaled up. What we need is leaders of our institutions publicly standing by us, committing to tangible action, turning permissive environments into zero tolerance for hate, and showing real bravery with the full force of government behind them.

For Jews, antisemitism has become suffocating. It is making us shrink inwards. Every one of your Jewish staff, clients, customers, friends – whatever sector you’re in – is going through this. We all make calculations about hiding our Jewishness because it might literally save our lives.

Louis Danker speaking at No 10 this morning. Photograph: Hannah McKay/PA

Libby Brooks

Libby Brooks is the Guardian’s Scotland correspondent.

With two days of campaigning left before the Holyrood elections, Scotland’s political leaders have been appearing across the country to punt their core messages to voters.

SNP leader John Swinney was in Fort William, pledging action to revive local high streets and no doubt relieved that the sentencing of convicted sex offender and former SNP council leader Jordan Linden has been postponed from this morning, when it threatened to dominate headlines.

John Swinney getting off his campagn bus in Fort William today. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar donned his scrubs – he is a trained dentist – promising his party will save Scotland’s NHS.

Reform’s Malcolm Offord was questioned on his party’s plans to locate immigration detention centres in areas that voted Green. When pointed out to him that the Scottish Greens may not win any constituency votes this election, and asked if this meant there would be no such centres in Scotland, he simply said “That’s a possibility, we’ll wait and see what the result is.”

Anas Sarwar reviving his skills as a dentist during a visit to a dental surgery in Glasgow today. Photograph: Craig Meighan/PA

UK sanctions Russian networks recruiting vulnerable migrants to fight in Ukraine

Britain has announced new sanctions aimed at Russian networks trafficking people from Africa and the Middle East to fight in Ukraine. In a news release, the Foreign Office says:

The UK has announced a raft of new sanctions to curb production of Russian drones and the nefarious networks that are exploiting vulnerable migrants from across the globe to support Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine. The latest action hits 35 individuals and entities, including those responsible for human trafficking networks, funnelling exploited migrants into Russia’s war machine.

Networks sanctioned by the UK have been deceptively recruiting foreign migrants in search of a better life and either sending them to the front line as cannon fodder or putting them to work in weapons factories. This includes through schemes like Russia’s Alabuga Start programme for drone production at a UK-sanctioned entity.

Starmer’s No 10 summit dismissed as ‘spectacle that puts words before action’ by Campaign Against Antisemitism

Days after we stood outside Downing Street calling on the prime minister to present a plan to tackle antisemitism, this is a start. We note that he has adopted some of our language and his acknowledgment that antisemitism comes not just from the far-right but also from the far-left and Islamism.

But most of what is being announced is merely a programme of telling the authorities to do the jobs they were supposed to have been doing for years. The police have had the powers to ban marches all along, and it should not have taken a spate of stabbings and arson attacks for the Charity Commission to act against extremist mosques or for the Arts Council to stop funding venues that spread hate.

It is absurd that basic steps have still not been announced today. We all know that Iran is a malign influence in this country, so why hasn’t the IRGC been proscribed and its ambassador expelled? The prime minister has been in office for almost two years, and it’s been half a year since the Manchester terrorist murders so why is he merely pointing to ongoing reviews of indeterminate length, without taking obvious action right now, for example banning the Muslim Brotherhood?

We suspect that avoiding these questions is why the prime minister did not invite the UK’s largest antisemitism campaigning charity to his event at Downing Street today. He probably knows that we would play no part in any choreographed spectacle that puts words before action. Now is not the time to be avoiding uncomfortable truths and hard questions.

Keir Starmer has posted this on social media about the cruise ship with a suspected outbreak of hantavirus.

My thoughts are with those affected by the hantavirus outbreak onboard the MV Hondius.

We are working closely with international partners to support British nationals on board and we’re putting plans in place for their safe onward travel.

The risk to the wider public remains very low – protecting the British people is our number one priority.

Labour attacks Badenoch and Farage for originally proposing UK involvement in Iran war in final English elections broadcast

Summing up the message of the broadcast, Labour says:

Both Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch initially wanted to throw Britain headfirst into war with Iran and have since u-turned on their position as the consequences of the conflict at home and abroad began to emerge.

On 2 March, after the US-Israeli action first began, Badenoch warned the government that there was “no point wanting action to make the world a safe place while being too scared to stand by and watch others”. Two days later, the Tory Leader told Labour MPs: “we are in this war whether they like it or not. What is the prime minister waiting for?”. Less than a week later, Badenoch shamelessly U-turned, saying she “never said we should join” the war.

On 2 March, Reform Leader Nigel Farage said Britain should do “all we can to support the operation”, before undertaking a humiliating U-turn just over a week later, while appearing to criticise the state of British armed forces in the process, stating the military could not “offer anything of value” to the operation.

Plunging Britain into the war in Iran could have deepened the consequences felt here in Britain on the cost of living – just at a time when too many families are feeling under real pressure. Many voters have also grown concerned over Green Party Leader Zack Polanski’s ambition for the UK to leave Nato, putting at risk Britain’s global alliances at a time when national security is of the upmost importance in the face of international volatility.

The PPB will quote mothers of men serving in the armed forces as saying they are glad that Badenoch and Farage were not in power and able to send their sons to war.

And it will feature Starmer saying:

Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch wanted to jump into the war with both feet without thinking through the consequences.

I did as I will always do – what is right for Britain.

SNP ‘within touching distance’ of getting overall majority at Holyrood, John Swinney claims

Pledging he would “get things done” if voted back into the post in Thursday’s election, the SNP leader also sought to contrast his leadership with that of Keir Starmer at Westminster.

He condemned the prime minister’s government for having “done absolutely nothing to help” in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis that Mr Swinney said had left some Scots “really struggling”.

The first minister pledged: “That is not the approach I will ever take.”

With food, energy and fuel prices all rising, he insisted an SNP government under his leadership would do “everything we can to support people through these tough times”.

He made the direct appeal to voters in an open letter issued ahead of Thursday’s Scottish parliament election.

Polls have suggested the SNP are on track to remain in the largest party – but Swinney is also seeking to win an overall majority in a bid to try to force a second vote on Scottish independence.

He said: “I think that we are so close to doing that – it is within touching distance. But we have to make it happen.”

John Swinney with Eilidh Munro, SNP candidate for Skye, Lochaber & Badenoch, at Fort William, Scotland, today. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Former Green MP Caroline Lucas says party should take ‘immediate action’ to deal with antisemitic candidates

Statements that have now come to light from a handful of @TheGreenParty candidates are totally unacceptable & require immediate action. There’s no place for anti-semitism or any hate speech in the party. This is a society-wide problem & needs to be rooted out wherever it’s found

UK’s relationship with Europe matters ‘even more than ever’ given global events, minister tells EU ambassadors

Lisa O’Carroll

Lisa O’Carroll is a senior Guardian correspondent covering trade and post-Brexit affairs.

The UK’s relationship with the EU matters “more than ever” given the “global challenges” Europe as a continent is facing, the European affairs minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has said.

He said:

As I stand here today, representing a UK government that has made reconnecting with our European partners a central priority, I feel the strength of that legacy, and believe in the importance of nations working together.

We passionately believe that a strong Europe is good for the UK – and a strong UK is good for Europe.

We are neighbours by geography and partners by choice.

As we look at the global challenges we face collectively – war on mainland Europe, war in the Middle East and the global structures we’ve relied on being tested – we believe that UK-EU relationship matters even more than ever.

Thomas-Symonds was speaking at a Europe Day event in Smith Square hosted by the outgoing EU ambassador Pedro Serrano.

Polanski’s approval rating plummets after row over tweet implying police in Golders Green arrest used excessive force

According to the More in Common figures, Polanski’s net approval rating, at -27, is still much higher than Keir Starmer’s, at -45.

But it is lower than it has been at any point since he took over as Green leader in September, and over the past week it has plummeted. Polanski was at -13 a week ago.

Leader approval ratings Photograph: More in Common

Commenting on the figures, Luke Tryl, director of More in Common UK, said:

Just looking over some data ahead of our elections webinar later and Zack Polanski’s net approval rating has fallen by a fairly chunky 14 points over the last week. Still far ahead of Starmer but also puts him now well below the top three of Badenoch, Davey and Farage.

Looking at the numbers it’s both a rise in negatives and a fall in positives, in particular more young people seem to have shifted from “good job” to “neither good nor bad job”. So a mix of more disapproval and more uncertainty.

No 10 does not deny report saying Reeves and US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent had ‘fierce row’ about Iran war

In their FT story, Jim Pickard, Sam Fleming and Claire Jones say:

When the pair met later that day [after Reeves told a CNBC event she did not know why the Americans started the war] Bessent berated Reeves over the remarks, according to people familiar with the situation.

The Treasury secretary insisted the world was safer because of the US-Israeli war against Iran, even invoking the spectre of Tehran launching a nuclear attack on London. Reeves responded angrily by telling Bessent she did not work for him and disliked how he had spoken to her.

She also reiterated her argument about the Iran conflict lacking clear goals and not necessarily making the world safer.

The FT also said that Reeves and Bessent had spoken since the incident, and that on other issues they worked well together.

Asked about the story, the spokesperson said:

Although I wouldn’t get into private conversations, the chancellor and the US Treasury Secretary have a good relationship. They have had constructive conversations together since the chancellor’s visits to Washington. There is a readout from the US Department of the Treasury, which made clear the productive nature of their relationship.

UPDATE: Here is Kiran Stacey’s story about this.

Aamna Mohdin

Aamna Mohdin is the a Guardian community affairs correspondent.

Jewish leaders welcomed commitments made at the antisemitism summit at 10 Downing Street, but said more urgent action is needed.

Representatives from the Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council described the announcements as an important moment to demonstrate a change in approach, pointing to measures including increased funding for communal security, an expansion of the “Common Ground” programme, new powers to suspend public funding from organisations promoting antisemitic content, and support for the Board’s new Jewish Culture Month.

However, they urged the government to go further. Among their demands were the proscription of the IRGC (the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) and its proxies operating in the UK, faster responses to alleged incitement at pro-Palestinian protests, and the full use of public order powers to restrict or ban marches where necessary.

They also called for quicker arrests and prosecutions in cases involving incitement against Jews, and an end to what they described as a “postcode lottery” in policing.

While the chant “globalise the intifada” has led to arrests in London, Manchester and Birmingham, they said enforcement has been inconsistent elsewhere.

UPDATE: Here is the statement in full.

Joint statement from Board of Deputies and Jewish Leadership Council Photograph: Board of Deputies

No 10 unable to say what might happen to universities that do not comply with new antisemitism audit requirements

Speaking about the meeting, the spokesperson said:

We are determined to make Jewish people in this country feel safe again.

I think, as the housing secretary said, people being anxious and afraid of being Jewish, people being afraid to wear the traditional Jewish skull cap or women being afraid to wear necklaces with the star of David. None of this can be acceptable in our society and it requires a whole society response to tackling it.

In terms of next steps we’ll set them out in due course.

We already expect universities to set out clear disciplinary consequences for antisemitism and to enforce them, and so we will hold them to account on that.

Journalists also questioned why social media companies were not invited, given the role they play in allowing the spread of antisemitism. The spokesperson said that Ofcom was there.

Keir Starmer speaking at the antisemitism event in No 10 this morning. Photograph: WPA/Getty Images

Badenoch defends wanting to ban pro-Palestine marches for spreading hate, but not Tommy Robinson ones

When it was put to her that Muslims might feel threatened by some of the things said at a Robinson event, she insisted that the two sorts of marches were “not the same”.

She went on:

Criticism of religion is allowed in this country. We mustn’t mix the two things.

I am talking about the attacks on Jews. It’s not the faith that’s being attacked, it’s the people.

And I do have to ask, why is it that whenever we’re talking about Jewish hatred, we always have what about, what about?

When something happens to black people, no one does the whataboutery. When something does happen to Muslims, we don’t say what about antisemitism?

Why do we have this double standard that, whenever there’s an issue with antisemitism and Jews being attacked, we have to broaden it out all the time.

Trump’s ‘relentless’ criticism of UK and other allies ‘only benefits Russia and Iran’, Badenoch says

The issue with Donald Trump is that he’s very erratic.

Even where you agree with him on what he is wanting to do, the way he goes about doing those things is very problematic.

A lot of his rhetoric, especially against allies, I do not like.

The relentless criticism of allies, whether it’s the UK or other European countries, only benefits Russia and Iran.

Badenoch defends seeking a ban on pro-Palestine marches but not Tommy Robinson ones – as it happened

Badenoch defends wanting to ban pro-Palestine marches for spreading hate, but not Tommy Robinson ones

Afternoon summary

UK sanctions Russian networks recruiting vulnerable migrants to fight in Ukraine

Starmer’s No 10 summit dismissed as ‘spectacle that puts words before action’ by Campaign Against Antisemitism

Labour attacks Badenoch and Farage for originally proposing UK involvement in Iran war in final English elections broadcast

SNP ‘within touching distance’ of getting overall majority at Holyrood, John Swinney claims

Former Green MP Caroline Lucas says party should take ‘immediate action’ to deal with antisemitic candidates

UK’s relationship with Europe matters ‘even more than ever’ given global events, minister tells EU ambassadors

Polanski’s approval rating plummets after row over tweet implying police in Golders Green arrest used excessive force

No 10 does not deny report saying Reeves and US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent had ‘fierce row’ about Iran war

No 10 unable to say what might happen to universities that do not comply with new antisemitism audit requirements

Badenoch defends wanting to ban pro-Palestine marches for spreading hate, but not Tommy Robinson ones

Trump’s ‘relentless’ criticism of UK and other allies ‘only benefits Russia and Iran’, Badenoch says

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