Badenoch accuses Labour of prioritising economic ties with China over national security – as it happened

Kemi Badenoch in the House of Commons. Photograph: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA

6.21pm BST

Early evening summary

• Dan Jarvis, the security minister, has described Tory claims that Labour deliberately sabotaged the China spy prosecution as “baseless smears” and said that the trial collapsed in part because the last Tory government did not update the Official Secrets Act earlier. (See 5.50pm and 6.17pm.)

• John Swinney has said the Scottish government will help hundreds of overseas care workers stay in the UK as he attacked Westminster for its rising hostility to migrants.

• Richard Tice, Reform UK’s deputy leader, has admitted the party cannot deliver the £90bn in tax cuts promised in its manifesto, saying it would concentrate on public spending cuts once in government.

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.

Updated at 6.22pm BST

6.17pm BST

Jarvis says Badenoch's claims about Labour collapsing spy trial are just 'baseless smears'

In his response to Badenoch, Jarvis said that he deliberately gave her a copy of his statement so that she could have time to consider his points.

But she did not engage at all with his point about the Official Secrets Act being out of date, he said.

He said he hoped they would be having a reasonable debate, but Badenoch was just spreading “baseless smears”. If she thought the government “deliberately collapsed an independent legal process through political interference”, she needed to provide evidence, he said.

He also said that Badenoch herself said last year, talking abour her time as a minister, “I have shied away from calling China a threat”. And when she was a minister, Badenoch herself said China was not a foe, he said.