Labour says Sunak’s £1,000 bet with Piers Morgan over Rwanda policy shows he’s ‘out of touch’ – as it happened

Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth says the PM is ‘totally out of touch with working people’. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA

6.04pm GMT

Early evening summary

• Rishi Sunak has been widely criticised for accepting a £1,000 bet with TalkTV presenter Piers Morgan relating to whether he will manage to get deportation flights off to Rwanda before the election. Morgan said he would bet £1,000 that the flights would not happen, with the money going to charity, and Sunak insisted he wanted to get people on the planes. Sunak, whose family has a fortune worth hundreds of millions of pounds, was accused of being not just out of touch with the experience of ordinary Britons, but “grotesque, callous and downright cruel”. (See 4.30pm.)

• Rishi Sunak has acknowledged that he has failed to keep his promise to cut healthcare waiting lists.

• The British and Irish governments have played down Sinn Féin’s calls for Irish unity and said Northern Ireland’s new devolved government can restore stability and faith in the region.

Rishi Sunak being interviewed by Piers Morgan for TalkTV. Photograph: Simon Dawson/No 10 Downing Street

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Disability Action Plan aimed at improving disabled people's lives 'here and now', says minister

A Disability Action Plan published by the government today is aimed at “improving disabled people’s daily lives in the here and now”, Mims Davies, the minister for disabled people, told MPs today.

The plan includes 14 goals for this year such as supporting disabled people who want to be elected to public office, including disabled people’s needs in emergency and resilience planning, and making playgrounds more accessible.

Updated at 6.09pm GMT