UK politics: Starmer sticks by manifesto pledge not to raise taxes amid tariff turmoil – as it happened

Keir Starmer speaks at the Jaguar Land Rover factory in Birmingham Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/Reuters

6.05pm BST

Early evening summary

• Keir Starmer has announced sweeping measures to support the car and pharmaceutical industries, as he said Britain faced a “changing and completely new world” after Donald Trump’s tariffs.

• Labour’s changes to electric vehicle (EV) rules in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs will have a negligible impact on emissions, Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, has said.

• The UK has lost an attempt to keep details of a legal battle with Apple away from the public.

• Hamish Falconer, the Foreign Office minister, has told MPs that Kemi Badenoch should apologise for wrongly saying that two Labour MPs were denied entry from Israel because they were not going to comply with the country’s laws. (See 5.50pm.)

• At least 250 people who were detained at Manston asylum centre during a period when it was dangerously overcrowded and grappling with outbreaks of infectious diseases are suing the government for unlawful detention and other breaches of their rights.

• A roll-call of former UK prime ministers, secretaries of state and ministers could be called to give evidence into a scandal at a controversial processing centre in Kent for small boat arrivals, according to an internal government memo disclosed to the Guardian, following a legal challenge.

5.50pm BST

Badenoch should apologise for what she said about two Labour MPs denied entry to Israel, minister tells Commons

Yesterday Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, defended Israel’s decision to refuse entry to the two Labour MPs Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed – even though Richard Fuller, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said they should have been let in.

In her response to the statement from Hamish Falconer, Wendy Morton, the shadow foreign office minister, essentially sided with her party leader. She declined to criticise Israel over the decision, and she said incident had to be seen “within the context of Britain’s relationship with Israel”. When the Conservatives were in office, they had candid conversations with the Israelis in private, she said. She also suggested the MPs should have been aware of the fact that the Foreign Office’s own guidance says it is up to the Israeli authorities to decide who is allowed to entre the country.

In response, Hamish Falconer said that Morton should have withdrawn the comments made by Badenoch yesterday. He said, if the Israelis had blocked any of the Conservative MPs who have led similar trips to the West Bank, then all MPs from the Commons would have condemned that.

He also said that Badenoch should apologise for what she said yesterday. He said she wrongly suggested the two MPs were blocked from entering the country because they were not going to comply with Israeli laws.

UPDATE: Falconer said:

The leader of the opposition said on Sunday, if you look at the reasons why the Israeli government has given for why they’re not letting them in, they don’t believe that they’re going to comply with their laws. The reasons for the denial given in writing by the Israeli government to the two MPs were for the prevention of illegal immigration considerations. The leader of the opposition should apologise.

Updated at 6.07pm BST