No 10 says it will produce ‘emergency’ bill to show Rwanda safe country ‘in coming weeks’ – as it happened

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Afternoon summary

• Lawyers have said that UK ministers’ latest plans to get their high-profile Rwanda policy off the ground are unlikely to overcome the legal obstacles that defeated them in the supreme court on Wednesday.

• Rishi Sunak’s government will present a full law to parliament to set aside the supreme court’s ban on sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, No 10 has said, setting up a likely battle with MPs and peers and putting in doubt the aim for flights to begin leaving by spring.

• James Cleverly, the new home secretary, has failed to deny calling the Rwanda policy ‘“batshit” in private. (See 9.27am.)

• David Cameron has travelled to Kyiv for his first trip as UK foreign secretary in an unannounced visit just days after his surprise appointment.

• Sixty senior women at the UK’s Ministry of Defence have described a “hostile” and “toxic” culture at the department in a letter that alleges sexual assault, harassment and abuse by male colleagues.

• Welfare claimants who “refuse” to engage with their jobcentre or take work offered to them will lose their benefits, under plans confirmed this afternoon by the chancellor before next week’s autumn statement. Commenting on the proposals, Liz Kendall, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said:

This poor excuse of a proposal does nothing to fundamentally change the state of our health service or our jobcentres after a decade of failure from the Tories. A record 7.8 million people are still stuck on NHS waiting lists, and 2.6 million people are trapped out of work due to long-term sickness, with the increase since the pandemic alone costing the taxpayer an extra £15.7bn a year.

David Cameron holding talks in Kyiv today with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Ukrainian president. Photograph: AP

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Nandy says Labour would stop 'constant raiding' of aid budget by other Whitehall departments

Labour in government would end the “constant raiding” of the aid budget by other departments, Lisa Nandy has said, as the shadow overseas development minister pledged it would spend aid for the reasons that the public supported it.

This would include a rebalancing again towards spending more on humanitarian aid – after a decade under the Conservatives during which spending reduced as a proportion and money was diverted towards financial instruments or spending by the Home Office in the UK.

Speaking at a lunch for journalists in Westminster, Nandy said:

The cynicism that motivated Boris Johnson, to take the axe to one of the greatest contributions that Britain has ever been able to make to the world is based on a view of people in the so called red wall that is deeply offensive, and profoundly wrong. And when we’re in government, I’m going to prove it.

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