Nigel Farage and Nick Candy say they met Musk at Mar-a-Lago to discuss doing ‘great things together’ – as it happened

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and Party treasurer Nick Candy during their meeting on Monday with with Elon Musk at Mar-A-Lago. Photograph: Stuart Mitchell/PA

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Afternoon summary

• “Waspi women” affected by the rising state pension age will not get compensation, the government has announced, with Keir Starmer arguing it would be wrong to burden the taxpayer.

• Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, has revealed that he and Nick Candy, the party’s treasure, met Elon Musk in Florida this week to discuss how they could “do great things together”. (See 2.33pm.)

• Downing Street has denied that a deal with Mauritius to hand over control of the Chagos Islands is in peril after the island’s new prime minister said the arrangement as it stands is not beneficial to his country.

• A lawyer who was accused of improperly trying to influence MPs and peers on behalf of China has lost a legal challenge against MI5, who said nearly three years ago that she was trying to interfere in the British democratic processs.

• The Horizon IT inquiry has heard nothing which showed ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells “acted in bad faith”, her legal team has said. As PA Media reports, in her closing submissions to the inquiry today, Samantha Leek KC said Vennells has “no desire to point fingers at others”, but added: “Ms Vennells still does not know why key information was not passed on to her and explained.” In her closing statement, Leek said:

Ms Vennells understands the strength of feeling about her – that of subpostmasters, those directly affected by the wrongful convictions, and that of the public.

She heard what was said yesterday about apologies being difficult to hear, and she understands that position.

She knows that any apology will offer little comfort to those affected.

She cannot and does not try to hide from the fact that whilst CEO, she did not manage to uncover the truth about the extent of the bugs, errors and defects in Horizon, as found by Mr Justice Fraser.

This is a matter of deep and constant regret to Ms Vennells, as is the fact that the convictions of the subpostmasters were not overturned sooner.

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Having Welsh-only names for most new Senedd constituencies 'quite wrong', says former Welsh Tory leader

The Welsh government is introducing a new electoral system for the next Senedd elections in 2026. This will involve creating 16 super-constituencies, each electing six MSs (member of the Senedd) using a PR system. As the BBC reports, Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru has decided that most of these constituences will have Welsh language-only names.

Andrew RT Davies, the former Welsh Tory leader, has criticised this. He said:

This move is quite wrong.

Wales is bilingual, and this move will disenfranchise English-only speakers.

While it may suit some parts of Wales to have Welsh-only names, places like the Vale of Glamorgan and Bridgend are majority English-speaking and the constituency names should reflect this.