UK politics: Creasy leaves open chance of Labour deputy leadership bid and calls for Palestine Action law change – as it happened

Stella Creasy said the present situation, with hundreds arrested for holding up banners, was ‘not sustainable’ Photograph: PRU/AFP/Getty Images

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Early evening summary

• Keir Starmer has reportedly told a private meeting of Labour MPs that the government will “fight with everything we’ve got” to oppose Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch. The meeting is still taking place, and a fuller briefing will be available later. Starmer also praised Angela Rayner for what she achieved with the employment rights bill.

• Labour MPs hoping to replace Angela Rayner as the party’s deputy leader have until Thursday afternoon to gather the 80 MPs’ nominations they will need to stand, with the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, ruling herself out of the race.

• The Labour MP Stella Creasy, who has not ruled out running for the deputy leadership, has urged the government to get rid of the law making it an offence to “recklessly express support for a proscribed organisation”. (See 4.34pm.)

• Countries that refuse to take back rejected asylum seekers from the UK could face visa suspensions, Shabana Mahmood said on Monday, as she promised to move “further and faster” as home secretary.

• Unite’s general secretary, Sharon Graham, has issued a warning to the government, saying it should enact full reforms of workers’ rights in order to fulfil a “promise to the British people”.

Updated at 6.43pm BST

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Dawn Butler has told Sky News that she is not interested in becoming Labour’s deputy leader. She is more interested in becoming mayor of London, she said.