Badenoch says UK-India trade deal is one she rejected as business secretary – as it happened

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch on Tuesday Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

6.15pm BST

Early evening summary

• Britain and India have agreed a long-desired trade deal that ministers said would add £4.8bn a year to the UK economy by 2040.

• Downing Street has ruled out reversing the cuts to winter fuel payments – despite Eluned Morgan, the Welsh first minister, backing leftwingers and others in the party saying the cuts should be abandoned in the light of Labour’s mostly dire performance in last week’s elections. (See 11.21am and 12.54pm.)

• Eluned Morgan, the Welsh first minister, has said she is “losing patience” with UK Labour and made it clear she is “tacking to the left” as she tries to counter a growing threat from Reform UK and Plaid Cymru.

• John Swinney has pledged that Scotland will be the only part of the UK guaranteeing to tackle the cost of living crisis as he heaped pressure on his Labour rivals.

• Hamish Falconer, a Foreign Office minister, has said the government is strongly opposed to Israel’s expansion of military operations in Gaza. In a statement to MPs, he said:

These announcements from the Israeli government have rightly sparked grave concern that this conflict, which has already wrought so much bloodshed and suffering, may enter a dangerous new phase. I know that concern will be felt right across the house.

Let me make the government position crystal clear: we strongly oppose the expansion of Israel’s operations. Any attempt to annex land in Gaza would be unacceptable. Palestinian territory must not be reduced nor subjected to any demographic change …

As the United Nations has already said, it is hard to see how, if implemented, the new Israeli plan to deliver aid through private companies will be consistent with humanitarian principles and meet the scale of the need. We need urgent clarity from the Israeli government on their intentions.

For a full list of all the stories covered here today, scroll through the key events timeline at the top of the blog.

Updated at 6.17pm BST

6.04pm BST

Nigerians, Pakistanis and Sri Lankans face UK student visa crackdown

Nigerians, Pakistanis and Sri Lankans applying to work or study in the UK face Home Office restrictions over suspicions that they are most likely to overstay and claim asylum, Whitehall officials have claimed.

Commenting on this story, Richard Tice, the Reform UK leader, claimed it was evidence “the government has started to agree with Reform once again by saying they are going to discriminate against in terms of the people that want to come to the UK”.

Updated at 6.18pm BST