No 10 rejects claim Labour misled voters about tax plans in manifesto – as it happened

Chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves in Westminster. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

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Early evening summary

• Rachel Reeves aims to make £40bn worth of tax rises and spending cuts in the budget, government sources have indicated.

• A bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults in England and Wales has been formally introduced in the House of Commons, triggering what is expected to be intense discussion over the coming weeks and months on an emotionally charged and controversial issue.

• Downing Street has said there was no conflict of interest in Keir Starmer attending a Taylor Swift concert and meeting her, and there would be no referral to the independent ethics adviser over decisions to grant her extra security.

• Weight-loss injections are not the “holy grail” of solving the obesity crisis, although they will play an important role in how the NHS treats the disease, the medical director of NHS England has said.

• A private donor has paid for a charter flight to repatriate Alex Salmond’s body from North Macedonia, after the Foreign Office rejected calls for the RAF to arrange the flight.

• Unpaid carers have welcomed plans to launch a review of “outdated” benefit rules that have left tens of thousands of people who look after loved ones with huge debts and threatened with prosecution, and triggered a scandal.

Updated at 6.04pm BST

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Today saw the first full opposition day for the Lib Dems in 15 years, as they brought a debate on the carer’s allowance overpayments scandal, which has seen carers required to pay back vast amounts of money due to small, often unnoticed, overpayments, Rosie Anfilogoff reports. She says:

Ed Davey, who is a carer for his disabled son, called the overpayments a “terrible scandal” and raised issues with the current system of carer’s allowance, categorising it as a “daft way of operating”. He, and many others, were particularly concerned with the “cliff-edge” aspect of the payments, which means accidentally earning just 1p over the limit allows the entire allowance to be taken away from carers.

Mel Stride, the former work and pensions secretary, ignored calls for him to apologise, despite overseeing the department during the scandal, which left one in five working unpaid carers affected by overpayments.

Many MPs called for the overpayments to be written off - but Stride called that an “absurdity”.

Today, the government announced a review into the scandal, with Liz Sayce OBE leading the review. MPs welcomed this, but many were disappointed by the review’s lack of breadth, wishing for greater reform to the carer’s allowance system. Davey said the government should “reshape” the review to include wider issues like the “way too low” payments carers receive.

Alison McGovern, the employment minister, sought to reassure MPs, saying the government is “fully aware of all of the issues carers face” and committed to exploring solutions.

Updated at 5.49pm BST