UK will allay Trump concerns over Chagos Islands, says minister, as Priti Patel says Tories opposed to deal– as it happened

UK-based Chagos Islanders protest outside parliament in October. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

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Early evening summary

• Stephen Doughty, a Foreign Office minister, has dismissed a claim by Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, that the incoming Trump administration feels “outright hostility” towards the government’s deal with Mauritius giving it sovereignty of the Chagos Islands. Speaking in the Commons, Doughty said that, when they were briefed on the details, their concerns would be allayed. (See 1.47pm and 2.07pm.)

• Civil servants are looking at the extra costs that assisted dying would impose on the NHS amid a warning from Wes Streeting that some services may be cut to fund expanded end-of-life care.

• Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has said there are “lots” of poor managers in the NHS. The Conservatives have dismissed a speech he gave on NHS reform as just a “rehashed press release”. (See 9.26am and 5.53pm.)

• The chair of the government’s equality watchdog, who was appointed by Liz Truss and investigated after a series of complaints by staff members, has been given a 12-month extension in the role, ministers have announced.

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Tories dismiss Streeting's speech on NHS reform as just 'rehashed press release'

The Conservatives claim Wes Streeting did not set out proper plans for NHS reform in his speech this morning. (See 11.39am.) In a response to the speech, Edward Argar, the shadow health secretary, said:

The prime minister said that there would be ‘no more money without reform’, yet all Labour has delivered is an extra £22bn for the NHS without any detail of how it will be used or productivity reforms in return.

We will support reforms that genuinely deliver better care for patients, better value for money for taxpayers, and that ensure our health and care systems are fit to meet the challenges of the future. But instead we see a government reheating old ideas, or announcing things that are already happening – what was needed was a plan; what we got from the health secretary was effectively a rehashed press release.

Updated at 5.54pm GMT