Summary
That’s all for today, as Suella Braverman has said she is “confident” that nothing untoward happened in relation to a speeding ticket but did not address the allegation she asked officials to organise a private speed awareness course.
The home secretary told reporters she was “confident that nothing untoward has happened” in relation to the story that she asked one of her staff to try to organise the lesson.
Rishi Sunak has asked for more information on the situation before asking his independent adviser on ethics for his view.
He told the Commons: “I have met with both the independent adviser [Sir Laurie Magnus] and the home secretary. I’ve asked for further information and I’ll update on the appropriate course of action in due course.”
The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, told the Commons that her opposite number had a track record of behaving as if she was “above the rules”.
In the same session, Braverman published the government’s response to the report from the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA). In a statement to MPs, she said that the government was accepting 19 out of 20 of the final recommendations, and that the report should lead to “fundamental change”.
The Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, said the party would get heart attacks and strokes down by a quarter within a decade during a speech on his plans for the NHS. On suicide, he says Labour would reverse the number of deaths by suicide.
Starmer added that the NHS would get more funding but that the health service was not “sustainable” in its current state.
Rishi Sunak gave a statement on the G7 summit, and denied that Britain was in retreat on the world stage, citing the UK’s role in supporting Ukraine.
Junior doctors in England will stage a fresh strike for three days next month after negotiations with ministers failed to resolve their pay dispute.
That’s all for today. Thank you for following along.
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More from the rally outside parliament in opposition to the anti-strikes bill being discussed in the Commons on Monday evening.
The RMT general secretary, Mick Lynch, has called for a “mass campaign of workplace disobedience” if the bill goes ahead.
He told the rally: “We will defy this law. If this law comes into fruition … the TUC and all of the trade unions affiliated and every worker in this country has got to unleash a mass campaign of workplace disobedience.”
Lynch urged Labour MPs to vote against the legislation.
“It’s easy,” he said. “You just have to walk across the room and stand in a hall and vote against it.”
He went on to say that a bill of rights for workers was needed.
“We need a new deal that enshrines in law ... the right to strike as a human and civil right,” he said, PA Media reported.
Lynch added: “If the Labour party and others want our vote … they must repeal and unshackle the unions and repeal four decades of anti-union laws and let us rebalance the workplace on behalf of our members.”
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