Farage reported to parliament’s standards watchdog over undeclared £5m donation – as it happened

Nigel Farage during a walkabout in King's Lynn, Norfolk. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

5.30pm BST

Afternoon summary

• Nigel Farage was given £5m by the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in the 2024 British general election, the Guardian can reveal.

• The Liberal Democrats are pushing for a ban on MPs accepting payments from X as part of a proposed wider crackdown on what Ed Davey will call a “serious threat” to UK democracy from Donald Trump’s US and other countries.

• The leader of Reform UK in Scotland, Malcolm Offord, has been dismissed as “tone deaf” and “entitled” after he boasted in a televised election debate about the number of cars, houses and boats he owned.

• Keir Starmer has called a Cobra meeting following the stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green, north London. For more coverage, you can read Tom Ambrose’s live blog.

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.

5.25pm BST

Sarwar sets out Scottish Labour's priorities for 1st 100 days in government, including declaring waiting times emergency

Anas Sarwar is vowing to show Scots “what change looks like” within the first 100 days of a Labour government, if he wins next week’s Holyrood election, the Press Association reports. PA says:

The Scottish Labour leader is setting out his plans for the first 100, should his party be successful in ousting John Swinney’s SNP from power on 7 May.

A week out from polling day, Sarwar appealed to voters to give him five years in power to “fix the mess” he said was caused by almost 20 years of the SNP in power.

A Scottish Labour government would declare a waiting times emergency within its first 100 days – with Sarwar adding plans would also be drawn up to ensure patients are treated wherever there is capacity.

If the conflict in the Gulf continues, he is also promising a £100m of emergency support to help with the cost of living – with this including proposals to bring down the price of petrol and diesel at the pump and support for businesses.

In addition, Scottish Labour would transfer the first £70m into a new fund for councils to repair potholes on the roads, ban mobile phones in Scotland’s classrooms and end the SNP’s “ideological” ban on new nuclear power stations.

Labour also says it would create a new ending homelessness unit in the first 100 days, to start work to end rough-sleeping, create a Scottish Treasury in a bid to boost government efficiency and cut waste, and work with CalMac and others to prevent a “summer ferry crisis” from hitting Scotland’s islands.