UK politics: Gove defends landlords after criticism of proposals to water down renters’ bill – as it happened

Michael Gove told the Sun ‘the majority of landlords do a great job’. Photograph: Lucy North/PA

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Afternoon summary

• Keir Starmer has attacked extremism in the Conservative party, telling Rishi Sunak at PMQS that he had allowed the Conservative party to become “the political wing of the flat earth society”. Starmer also said that Liz Truss, the former PM, should not be allowed to stand as a Tory candidate again after she spent last week at a conference in the US with far-right Republicans denouncing the “deep state”. (See 1.39pm.)

• Michael Gove, the levelling up secretary, has defended his decision to listen to the concerns of Tory MPs who want to water down the bill banning no-fault evictions. (See 5.06pm.)

• More than half of Conservative 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.

• The Palestine Solidarity Campaign has rejected a suggestion from James Cleverly, the home secretary, that it should halt its regular demonstrations about the war in Gaza. (See 1.50pm.) Cleverly has also suggested that protest laws could be tightened, requirig groups to increase the amount of notice they give to police before large demonstrations.

• GB News has paid Conservative MPs more than £660,000 in appearance fees and salaries since it launched, against just £1,100 to Labour MPs, Guardian analysis shows.

• Police forces will be forced to provide more protection to victims of domestic abuse under a Labour government, the party has said.

• Fergus Ewing, one of the SNP leadership’s fiercest critics, has called on the party to change course and ditch its “dreadful” governing partnership with the Scottish Greens, as he lost his appeal against a week-long suspension from the Holyrood group.