£570m cost of Erasmus is ‘money coming back to UK’, says minister – as it happened

Graduates throw their caps in the air at Birmingham University. The Erasmus scheme is designed to offer more opportunities to study abroad Photograph: Andrew Fox/Alamy

5.40pm GMT

Afternoon summary

• The UK has given its final warning to Roman Abramovich to release £2.5bn from the oligarch’s sale of Chelsea FC to give to Ukraine, telling the billionaire to release the funds within 90 days or face court action.

• The UK’s largest trade union, Unison, is on a potential collision course with Labour after it ousted a general secretary with close links to Keir Starmer in favour of a leftwinger who was expelled from the party three years ago.

• Young people across the UK will be able to study or gain work experience through the EU’s Erasmus scheme for the first time since Brexit, after the government announced an agreement to rejoin at a cost of £570m.

• Jamie Driscoll, the former Labour metro mayor for North of Tyne who later played a role setting up Your Party, has joined the Greens, the party has announced.

• The conciliation service Acas has offered to help to try to break the deadlock in the resident doctors’ strike in England.

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 7.30pm GMT

5.34pm GMT

Corbyn renews call for meeting about Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers, saying they are 'at serious risk of death'

Jeremy Corbyn has renewed his call for a meeting with ministers to discuss the treatment of the Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers. He did not get very far raising the issue at PMQs (see 12.45pm), but he has now written another letter to David Lammy, the justice secretary. In it he says the eight hunger strikers are “at serious risk of death”.

Updated at 5.34pm GMT