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Peter Mandelson outside his home in north-west London
Peter Mandelson outside his home in north-west London Photograph: James Manning/PA

Former Green party co-leader, Carla Denyer, has said it is “absolutely right” that Peter Mandleson was arrested for questioning.

In a post on X, she said: “About time. Absolutely right that Mandelson is arrested for questioning. We owe so much to the bravery of the women who fought to get the Epstein files released. We must have full accountability from Mandelson and Mountbatten-Windsor.”

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This is what the Press Association has filed on the arrest of Peter Mandelson.

Footage shown by broadcasters shows a plain clothed police officer leading Lord Mandelson out of a house.

Lord Mandelson then gets into the left rear seat of a waiting unmarked Ford Focus police car.

The male police officer then gets into the right rear passenger seat.

A female police officer gets into the front seat of the car before it is driven away.

In the Commons Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, responded to Phillipson on behalf of his party. His son, who is severly disabled, has an EHCP and Davey said that, like other parents, he had been “dreading” today because he was worried about provision being cut back. He asked for an assurance that parents, “the real experts on their children”, would be consulted about changes to EHCPs.

Back in the Commons, responding to her Tory opposite number, Laura Trott (see 5.38pm), the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, said that most of the problems within the Send system were left by the last government and that “an ounce of humility, an ounce of contrition” would have been appropriate.

Jacqui Smith, the skills minister, has been on Times Radio. Asked about the arrest of Peter Mandelson, she said:

The police will do what they need to do and will pursue the investigation as they see fit and I think that’s the most important thing for people like me to say at this moment in time.

More details on Mandelson's arrest

Vikram Dodd is the Guardian’s crime correspondent.

Peter Mandelson was led to a waiting car by detectives without being placed in handcuffs. This is after police assessed the former cabinet minister did not present a risk of violence or trying to flee.

Met detectives investigating Mandelson have had discussions with lawyers from the special crime division of the Crown Prosecution Service, which authorises criminal prosecutions in England and Wales.

As yet the discussions are described as informal, but no formal early investigative advice has yet been sought nor offered.

The CPS’s special crime division is also the part of the prosecution service that would consider the misconduct in office case against the former Prince Andrew.

Tories claim Send reform plans 'recipe for disaster' because extra funding won't compensate for higher workload

In the Commons Bridget Phillipson is now making her statement about Send reform and the education white paper. She covered some of the points that she made in her speech earlier.

Laura Trott, the shadow education secretary, was responding for the Conservatives, and she highlighted a series of concerns with the plans.

She said it was not clear under the proposals which children would continue to get an EHCP.

And she claimed it was not clear who would get an ISP, or what support they might get.

She also said the extra money being allocated for schools (see 9.50am) was “nowhere near enough” to pay for the extra work being generate

That’s nowhere near enough for the extra work that schools are going to have to cover to write individual, tailored ISPs for every child. This is a mammoth burden to place on schools, one that I don’t necessarily think is misplaced, but £24,000 a year is not enough to help them manage it. It’s not a recipe for inclusion. It’s a recipe for disaster.

She ended by saying:

We support the principle of reform. But there is precious little clarity for Send parents today.

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Jones confirms government 'not ruling out' any action on Mountbatten-Windsor being in respect of succession

In his statement to MPs about the release of Peter Mandelson documents required by the humble address motion, Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the PM, also referred to the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor last week. He said:

I understand there’s been a high level of public interest in the news of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest last Thursday and what may follow.

The government is clear that we are not ruling out action in respect of the line of succession at this stage, and we will consider whether any further steps are required in due course.

It is vital, however, that we first allow the police to carry out their investigations.

I know they will have the full support of the government, and I’m sure this House, as they do so.

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Met statement on arrest of Mandelson

Here is the Met police statement in full.

It is headlined: “Update on investigation into misconduct in public office offences relating to a former government minister.”

A Met spokesperson said:

Officers have arrested a 72-year-old man on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

He was arrested at an address in Camden on Monday, 23 February and has been taken to a London police station for interview.

This follows search warrants at two addresses in the Wiltshire and Camden areas.

Peter Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

Peter Mandelson has been arrested by the police, the Press Association reports.

Lord Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the Metropolitan Police said.

The Times has this picture.

Darren Jones tells MPs first batch of Mandelson documents demanded by humble address to be released 'in early March'

Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the PM, told MPs that the government would publish the Peter Mandelson documents required by the humble addressed passed by the Commons in tranches. The first batch would be out “in early March”, he said.

But, Jones said, the first tranche of documents would include some material that the Metropolitan police has asked No 10 to hold back because of its ongoing inquiry into Mandelson. He said this would include correspondence between No 10 and Mandelson “in which a number of follow up questions were asked”.

Jones seemed to be referring to correspondence relating to Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador.

Patrick Hurst from the Press Association has some video clips from Keir Starmer’s visit to Gorton and Denton.

In a previous era, a prime minister visiting a byelection would have done a walkabout. From the pictures, it seems Starmer was just meeting activists in a closed setting. Thjis is relatively normal now; security concerns around visits like this are much higher than they were in the past, and the police presumably would not have been happy if Labour had tried sending the PM down the high street.

Starmer attacks Green party's drugs policy as 'disgusting' on byelection visit to Gorton and Denton

Keir Starmer hit out at the Green party’s “disgusting” drugs policy and “toxic” Reform UK on a campaign visit ahead of the Gorton and Denton byelection, the Press Association reports. PA says:

Labour faces a battle to save the previously rock-solid Greater Manchester constituency in the face of a double electoral threat from both Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and Zack Polanski’s Greens.

In 2024 Labour won the seat with a majority of 13,413 and more than half the vote, but the party’s plummeting popularity since Starmer entered No 10 means it could be vulnerable.

Starmer warned would-be Green supporters they could split the anti-Reform vote and allow the party’s candidate, GB News presenter Matt Goodwin, to enter parliament.

Starmer said: “In this byelection a vote for the Green party is, in effect, a vote for Reform.

“And we saw in the byelection in Runcorn last year, where Labour lost by just a handful of votes, we got a Reform member of parliament. We mustn’t let that happen again.”

Starmer also took aim at Polanski’s support for the legalisation of drugs.

“When it comes to the Green party, look at their drugs policy: they say we should legalise heroin and crack cocaine,” Starmer said.

“Imagine what would happen in every park and every playground in this constituency if that happened.

“I have to say, as a father of a boy who’s 17-and-a-half, the idea that the Green party would make the argument that just, in a few months’ time, it should be perfectly lawful to sell him heroin and crack cocaine … I find that disgusting.”

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Josh Simons wrong to tell Labour colleagues that Cabinet Office inquiry concluded he did not break ministerial code, MPs told

In the Commons John McDonnell (Lab) has just raised a point of order about these tweets from Dan Bloom from Politico. Bloom said:

EXCL: Josh Simons has accidentally messaged details of his case to a mass WhatsApp group of 2024-intake Labour MPs today

The message (swiftly deleted) said: “Jonny rang, PM will ask Laurie to look in to it. Aim is to move fast. But PET did find I had not broken the code.”

Translation: The accidental mass message revealed that the chief whip (Jonathan Reynolds) had rung him and confirmed that Laurie Magnus, the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests, will investigate the allegations against Simons relating to his time at Labour Together

A government official said of the above: “This was an accidental post and clearly meant for a more private conversation. It’s right that the independent adviser takes this away now.”

PET is the Cabinet Office’s propriety and ethics team.

In response, Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the PM, said that the PET would not have made a judgment as to whether or not Simon broke the ministerial code.

Thinktanks welcome Send reform plans

And here are comments from three progressive or centrist thinktanks welcoming the Send reforms.

Harry Quilter-Pinner, executive director at IPPR, said:

Demand for EHCPs has soared by 250 per cent since 2014, with thousands of young people waiting more than a year for an initial assessment. The system is broken.

EHCPs were only ever intended for exceptional cases, but cuts, Covid and the cost-of-living crisis have driven up need while stripping back schools’ capacity to provide support.

Reforming the Send system to invest more in early support will ensure more children get help sooner – and that EHCPs are reserved for those with the most complex needs.

Dani Payne, head of education and social mobility at the Social Market Foundation, said:

Reform of the Send system is long overdue, and it is good to see government take on an area that is both complex and politically challenging. The government’s planned approach, of prioritising mainstream inclusion for pupils with Send and strengthening universal support offers, is the right one. Schools should be places that can support a diverse range of pupils to learn and thrive.

EHCPs are an important part of the system, and it is right that they have been retained. However, they were never meant to become the only or main avenue of support. Our research found that the majority – 58% – of teachers agree that EHCPs should be reduced, and funding redistributed to early intervention and classroom based support.

And Alexander Iosad, director of government innovation policy at the Tony Blair Institute, said:

Send services are crying out for radical reform and it is right that the government is taking the challenge on. The status quo – built on messy, confusing, often outdated documents and an opaque system of inadequate support – is not good enough for anyone, whether they have an EHCP or not.

This is a welcome investment that can and should lay the groundwork for a full transformation of the system. A genuinely new approach, unlocking personalised and evidence-based provision for each young person’s specific needs and ensuring parents don’t have to battle the system to get it, is possible.

Danny Kruger, the Reform UK MP, said that Keir Starmer did not need to wait for an inquiry; he said that he could get rid of Josh Simons now.

In response, Jones said that Starmer made the ethics adviser independent when he too office “because of the misuse of that process by former prime ministers who were trying to cover up for their friends”.

Mencap, the learning disability charity, has welcomed the government’s Send plans. Jon Sparkes, its chief executive, said:

We’re pleased the government is committed to reforming the Send system, which is currently failing children with a learning disability.

Right now, too many families are left waiting, fighting and worn down. No child’s future should depend on parents battling for support. That isn’t fair, and it isn’t sustainable.

The move to make mainstream schools more inclusive is welcome news. Families must have their children’s needs identified early and for them to be given the right help straight away, backed by services fully funded to do the job, and rights underpinned by law.

Allegations against Josh Simons in relation to Labour Together smear claims are 'disputed', MPs told

Back in the Commons Julian Lewis (Con) said he did not see the need for a further invesigation into Josh Simons. He said the facts were “clear” and Simons’ position was “indefensible”.

In response, Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the PM, said that the ethics adviser is investigating because the facts of the case are “disputed”.

Tories say it is 'difficult to see' how Josh Simons can stay on as government minister given Labour Together smear claims

Alex Burghart, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, was responding to Darren Jones. He said it was “difficult to see” how Josh Simons’ position was tenable. He said Simons seems to have been involved in “a deliberate attempt to smear and intimidate journalists”.

He also asked by Simons had not been suspended.

In response, Jones said if Simons had been suspended, the ethics adviser would not be able to investigate him.

Inquiry by PM's ethics adviser into Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons to concluded 'very soon', MPs told

In the Commons Darren Jones, the chief secretary, to the PM, is responding to the Tory UQ about Labour Together and Josh Simons.

Jones says the review of the facts, relating to claims that Simons commissioned a report before the general election that smeared journalists investigating the thinktank Simons was running at the time, has concluded. He says the facts have been reported to the prime minister, and the PM has been advised to refer the matter to his ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus. That has happened.

He says the PM will make a decision (about Simons’ future) when he gets that report, and that will happen “very soon”.

The adviser’s report to the PM will be published in the normal way, he says.

Jones says “no journalist should every be intimidated for trying to hold those in power to account”.

Lib Dems welcome Send plans as 'solid steps' to improve system

The Liberal Democrats have welcomed the government’s Send plans as “solid steps” to improve the system.

Responding to the white paper, Munira Wilson, the Lib Dem education spokesperson, said:

Reform of our broken special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system is long overdue. Parents and carers have been crying out for change for years, and finally the government has today taken solid steps to start addressing the deep-seated issues in this adversarial system.

The devil will be in the detail to ensure change is properly resourced with people and money, but also trust is restored with parents who are fearful of losing their rights and hard-won support for their children. I have listened to so many parents who have been fighting a losing battle to get the most basic level of support their children deserve – this is too important to not get right.

The Conservative party has not issued a formal statement about the Send plans since their publication this morning, but last night they questioned whether the funding for it was new, and demanded “cast-iron guarantees that no child with an EHCP will lose the support that many parents have fought for”.

Starmer urged to offer indefinite leave to remain to Ukrainian refugees

Diane Taylor covers migration stories for the Guardian.

Almost 7,000 Ukrainian refugees are calling on the prime minister to secure their futures in the UK by granting them indefinite leave to remain here.

There are currently approximately 264,000 Ukrainian refugees in the UK and new research from the Sanctuary Foundation of more than 1,300 of them found that, while 85% of them are in employment and 98% express deep gratitude to the British public for welcoming and supporting them, only 35% feel optimistic about their future here due to visa uncertainty.

Ukrainians are currently in the UK on temporary visas. They are calling for a clear pathway to settlement, clarity on visa extensions and protection for Ukrainian children who have integrated into UK schools.

Dr Krish Kandiah from the Sanctuary Foundation, said:

The Homes for Ukraine scheme revealed this country at its very best – opening doors, offering sanctuary, and turning compassion into action for those fleeing war. Four years on, it is deeply encouraging that so many Ukrainians still feel welcomed and supported. Yet the shadow of visa uncertainty is debilitating and disorienting. Having offered refuge, we cannot now leave our Ukrainian friends living in limbo.

A petition signed by almost 7,000 Ukrainians in the UK calling for immigration security will be presented at Downing Street at 2pm today.

Councils welcome Send plans, and in particular plans to 'rebalance' tribunal system

Local government organisations have welcomed the government’s plans to overhaul Send provision.

The County Councils Network represents county and unitary councils in England. They are the authorities dealing with education. Bill Revans, its Send spokesperson, said:

For years, the County Councils Network has warned that the present Send system is not working for young people nor for local authorities. Over £30bn has been invested into a one size fits all system where education outcomes haven’t improved. Meanwhile, councils have racked up unsustainable spending on services and we, local leaders, have felt families’ frustrations as they have faced longer waits for support. At present, many families believe that an education, health and care plan (EHCP) is the only route to secure support for their child.

Whilst the devil will be in the detail, the proposals represent a potential radical overhaul of the system whereby mainstream schools are resourced to support more pupils with Send needs. This should help ensure that more young people are supported in their local school with the requisite help in place without the need for an EHCP or a specialist placement, with a focus on prevention and early intervention within the wider system, including early years. We also support measures to address the escalating costs of private placements.

It is important to retain the tribunal system, but proposals to rebalance this process are correct. [See 12.25pm.] At present, tribunals can rule without any consideration for the costs beholden on the local authority’s limited budget – a root cause of the present financial crisis the system has generated for councils. A rebalancing so it is more equitable to all parties – addressing where faults have been made, but in line with the rights afforded to all children in the existing admissions process will make for a fairer system.

And Louise Gittins, chair of the Local Government Association, said:

For too long, the Send system has been failing children, young people and their families. Substantial reform is desperately needed so that they get the support they need.

We’re pleased the government shares our aspiration that children with Send who require support do so in a mainstream setting where appropriate; and that all children can reach their potential.

Keir Starmer opens investigation into Josh Simons over targeting of reporters

Keir Starmer has opened a formal investigation into a Cabinet Office minister involved in falsely accusing journalists of having links to pro-Russian propaganda, Henry Dyer reports.

Reform UK accused of having 'un-Christian' migration policy - as it claims it would defend UK's Christian heritage

For the record, here is the Reform UK summary of eight policies announced by Zia Yusuf in his speech this morning. (See 2.32pm.)

-Deliver net negative immigration by ending the era of mass immigration and deporting all illegal migrants from the United Kingdom, with the party stating that it would expect to deport over 600,000 in its first term.

-Apply visa bans on countries that refuse to take back their illegal migrants, including the likes of Pakistan, Somalia, Eritrea, Syria, Afghanistan and Sudan who all have large illegal migrant populations in the UK.

-Deliver Operation Restoring Justice by leaving the European convention on human rights immediately, derogating from every international treaty that has been used to frustrate the deportation of those who have no right to be here, immediately commencing the rapid construction of secure detention capacity for 24,000 illegal migrants, and establishing UK Deportation Command to identify, detain and deport illegal migrants.

-Deploy stop and search to get knives off our streets by changing the law to allow Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which currently allows senior police officers to authorise stop and search to an area for 24 hours, extendable for a further 24 hours, to be extended by up to 30 days to enable the police to disrupt impending crime in hotspots.

-Protect Britain’s Christian heritage by preventing churches being turned into places of worship of other faiths by automatically listing historic churches, preventing alterations affecting their historic character, requiring their upkeep and restricting change of use. Reform UK would also create a new planning use class for churches to prevent them being converted into places of worship for other religions.

-Introduce the “Polanski Law” to make aiding and abetting illegal entry into the UK a criminal offence, regardless of intent. This will close the loophole in the current law by making it a strict liability offence for people to perform any act that assists or encourages illegal entry, punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment. This will stop the Green Party endorsed charity industrial complex from facilitating large scale illegal entry under the guise of humanitarian or charitable action. The legislation will not impede lifeboats saving those in genuine distress at sea.

-Overhaul the PREVENT programme so it is focused on the real threats Britain faces, especially Islamist terrorism, and mandate home searches in cases of repeat referrals. Where an individual is referred by three separate corroborating authorities, they will automatically and without exception be subject to a thorough physical search of their homes.

-Proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Muslim Brotherhood to begin ridding the UK of extremist organisations.

While there is a lot of overlap between Conservative policy and Reform UK, the Tories are not proposing to ban churches being converted into mosques, and Reform UK are definitely putting more emphasis on protecting the UK’s “Christian heritage”. There is something quite American about this; in the US, rightwing white nationalism has a distinct religious component that is much less common in Europe.

Sunder Katwala from the British Future thinktank says this is an irony in claiming to be Christian as a party while promoting a migration policy that is distinctly un-Christian.

Zia Yusuf’s rhetoric of protecting Christianity, rhetorically, is combined with an indecent threat to deport many tens of thousands of Christians, including those here 5-20 years with permanent status, as well as recent arrivals, from across the Commonwealth and elsewhere outside Europe

The 600k settled residents (non-EU) threatened with deportation + > million newer arrivals mostly non-white & less likely to have no religion than median white Briton. Many tens of thousands of Christians, as well as Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs & others of no faith. (But Yusuf isn’t deporting most Poles)

The policy of revoking past grants of permanent settlement to deport settled migrants om a scale unprecedented in any democracy is fairly described as un-Christian in values, & also inhumane from a humanitarian perspective, in its indecent treatment of people of all faiths Inc Christians & of none.

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Here is the text of Bridget Phillipson’s speech this morning launching the schools white paper.

Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker, will confirm that MPs can debate Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, even though parliamentary rules mean the conduct of members of the royal family is not normally a matter for debate, Steven Swinford from the Times says. The Liberal Democrats want to hold a debate on Andrew in the Commons tomorrow and Hoyle is expected to clarify what is allowed.

Hoyle first told MPs earlier this month that Andrew was no longer protected by the Commons convention about debating royals saying that, because he was no longer a prince, the rule did not apply.

Charities condemn Reform UK's migration plans as 'sadistic' and 'abhorrent' - as Tories claim Farage's plans same as theirs

The Conservative party has claimed that Reform UK’s plans to deport hundreds of thousands of people who are in the UK illegally are much the same as theirs.

In a statement issued after Zia Yusuf set out the Reform plans in a speech, Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said:

Reform’s home affairs spokesperson has nothing new to offer beyond copying and pasting Conservative plans.

Reform are a one man band. Only the Conservatives have a credible plan to control our borders through leaving the ECHR, deporting all illegal immigrants within a week and banning asylum claims from illegal entrants.

In a summary of its plans, Reform UK said it would set up a UK Deportation Command, with “the capacity to detain 24,000 migrants at a time and deport up to 288,000 annually”.

The Conservatives say, under their borders plan, they would set up a removals force to deport 150,000 illegal immgrants a year.

But others are less positive about the Reform UK plans.

Max Wilkinson, the Lib Dem home affairs spokesperson, said:

Reform’s Trump-inspired plans for an ICE-style force will only bring chaos and disorder to Britain’s streets, not the order and control our immigration system needs.

It’s nonsense to claim that ripping up the European convention on human rights – a largely British creation – will bring more control. It will undermine the cooperation we need to tackle the problem, and deprive British people of hard-won rights and freedoms too.

Dora-Olivia Vicol, CEO of the Work Rights Centre, a charity that works with migrants, was particularly critical of the Reform plan, not just to deport people in the UK illegally, but to abolish indefinite leave to remain, the status that allows foreigners who have lived in the UK for a period of time to stay for good. Vicol said:

We have watched in horror as Ice attacked migrant communities and citizens in the US – yet this is what Reform wants to base their immigration policies on? This is a sadistic vision of UK families and communities being ripped apart, money being wasted, and the government turning against its own people.

Cancelling the immigration status of people who have settled and built their entire lives here would not only be callous, but actively hurt our economy and public services. People who hold ILR [indefinite leave to remain] are our partners, neighbours, friends, teachers, NHS workers, and include high tax contributors. There is absolutely no reason to terminate their status other than for Reform’s own self-serving goals of division and chaos.

Amnesty International UK also criticised the Reform UK plans. Referring to the way Yusuf claimed that the UK was experience an immigrant “invasion”, Kerry Moscogiuri, Amnesty chief executive in the UK, said:

Language that frames migration as an ‘invasion’ poisons the public debate and emboldens ideas many believed we had left behind generations ago. Appealing to racism or aggressive nationalism as a shortcut to power is reckless and dangerous.

The UK does not need or want a British version of Ice. Proposals to mirror the United States through mass detention and rapid deportations risk unleashing a system built on fear, aggressive raids and discrimination, where enforcement operates with sweeping powers and too little accountability. That is not security. It is a blueprint for division, harm and lasting damage to our freedoms.

And Nathan Phillips, head of campaigns at Asylum Matters, also criticised Reform UK – while pointing out that Labour too is not committed to protecting the ILF status quo. Referring to the Yusuf speech, he said:

This is an utterly abhorrent, terrifying proposal that would destroy individual lives, our communities and our economy. It’s hard to believe anyone could look at the violent abductions and state-sponsored murders taking place in the US and conclude that’s what we need here.

What’s most disturbing is that this extremist policy isn’t an outlier. Our current government is condemning Reform’s plan to end indefinite leave to remain, while actively planning to deny thousands of people the right to claim ILR, and make even more people, including refugees, wait decades to achieve that security. It’s broadcasting its own Ice-style TikTok videos while calling newcomers to this country “strangers”.

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NEU teachers' union welcomes 'ambition' of Send plans, but insists 'real additional resources' needed

The National Education Union, the largest teachers’ union in the UK, has said that it welcomes the “ambition” behind the government’s Send plans. Like other organisations, it has called for more funding, but its overall response is notable more positive than the NASUWT’s overnight one. (See 9.36am.)

This is from Daniel Kebede, the NEU’s general secretary.

The National Education Union welcomes the government’s ambition to reshape the Send landscape to ensure it works for all children. All children must have ready access to special needs support from their school without a long bureaucratic process and mainstream schools will have more access to specialist services.

The NEU has been calling for funding for more resources for inclusion in mainstream schools, so we welcome the announcement of the inclusion grant. However, it is too small. It only equates to a part-time teaching assistant for the average primary school and two teaching assistants for average secondary schools. This is not enough to make schools more inclusive.

The Experts at Hand specialists will need capacity and resource but will provide schools with the additional support and advice that we have long been calling for. (See 9.50am.)

The NEU is pleased that the government intends to tackle the profiteering by independent special schools who have been charging exorbitant fees for poor quality provision and draining resources from the system …

For these reforms to be successful the government must work with the profession and schools. They must listen to parents’ concerns, and they must make sure that there are enough resources available. Schools are running on empty. The government must not put more expectations on schools without real additional resources – and the funding currently announced is not enough.

‘Nothing off the table’ in UK response to latest Trump tariffs, No 10 says

“Nothing is off the table” in the UK’s response to US President Donald Trump’s threats that he will impose 15% global tariffs, Downing Street has said.

As the Press Association reports, at the Downing Street lobby briefing No 10 left open the possibility that the UK could impose reciprocal trade levies on American goods and services, but insisted that it was focused on “constructive engagement” with the Trump administration as a trade war would harm businesses.

Trump said on Saturday he would be imposing a 15% global tariff “effective immediately” after the supreme court overturned his previous import taxes policy in a ruling on Friday, PA reports. It triggered condemnation from the British Chambers of Commerce, which warned the change would mean an extra 5% increase in tariffs on a “wide range” of exports to America, except those covered under a transatlantic trade deal.

Asked how the government planned to respond to Trump’s announcement, the PM’s spokesperson told reporters:

Our approach to the US has always been pragmatic.

We continue to have productive conversations with them … and those discussions are happening at all levels, but nothing is off the table at this stage.

Industry doesn’t want to see a trade war where both sides keep escalating the situation, and that’s why our focus is on constructive engagement with our US counterparts to retain the UK’s competitive advantage.

There will be one urgent question and three ministerial statements in the Commons this afternoon. They are:

3.30pm: A Cabinet Office minister will respond to a Tory UQ about “the Cabinet Office review into Labour Together and APCO Worldwide”.

After 4pm: Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the PM, makes a statement about the planned release of documents relating to Peter Mandelson.

After 5pm: Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, makes a statement about the Every Child Achieving and Thriving white paper, including the Send reforms.

After 6pm: Steve Reed, the local government secretary, makes a statement about local government reorganisation.

Reform UK sent out a detailed preview ahead of Zia Yusuf’s speech this morning in his new role as the party’s home affairs spokersperson. Here is Jessica Elgot’s overnight story.

And these are from Peter Walker, who was listening to Yusuf’s press conference.

Nigel Farage is setting out his migration plans, which would involve retrospectively removing permanent UK residency for hundreds of thousands of non-European people, arguing this the only way to defeat a “really worrying, dangerous form of extreme right ethno-nationalism”.

Farage: “Nobody over the last quarter of a century has done more to defeat the genuine, intolerant, abhorrent, extreme, far right than me.”

You can argue he has kept the openly far right out of his parties, but this is arguably at the expense of absorbing and sanitising many of their arguments.

As an example, Zia Yusuf says at the start of his speech: “English girls were raped on an industrial scale while those in authority looked the other way.” That’s a way of explaining the grooming gangs issue in terms that could be fairly described as far right

I’d argue that setting out the retrospective stripping of ILR, and plans for mass, ICE-style arrests, detentions and deportations, is a moment of some risk for Reform, despite immigration being their main policy focus, if and when voters realise what it will mean in practice.

The fairly extreme nature of the policy, and the very obvious association with what is happening under Trump in the US, is also likely to focus minds when people who don’t like this sort of thing vote tactically at the next election.

Yusuf: “When Nigel is prime minister, there will not be a judge in the country that will be able to prevent flights from leaving.”

Worth noting that the political precedents for saying, ‘The judiciary cannot in any way check the powers of the executive’ is not a happy one.

The other political risk for Reform with all this is that Zia Yusuf is not in any way a cuddly or reassuring figure. He delights in sounding as draconian as he can. That will appeal to some, but arguably not so much to the voters beyond the 30%-ish core support Reform need to win an election.

As an aside, Yusuf is also not an especially good public speaker. He goes on far too long and can seem hectoring and lecturing.

Martin Lewis ambushes Badenoch on Good Morning Britain over student loans plan

Kemi Badenoch has faced what could be described as the stuff of nightmares for a UK politician being interviewed about a personal finance policy: being ambushed and contradicted live on air by Martin Lewis. Peter Walker has story.

How DfE expects proportion of children going to independent special schools to fall under its plans

The Department for Education has also published a document with projections for what is expected to happen to EHCPs and special needs placements under the government’s plans.

Here is the chart illustrating the point highlighted by Kiran Stacey in his story – about how the plans could lead to around 270,000 fewer young people getting EHCPs.

And this chart shows the percentage of children expected to be in special placements under the government’s plans over the next decade. A significant increase is expected in the proportion of children being placed in “specialist bases” in mainstream schools. But the proportion going to special schools, including independent special schools, is expected to fall.

This is what the Commons education committee said in its report last year about the use of independent special schools.

The NAO estimates that an independent special school place costs £61,500 to compared to £23,900 in an equivalent state special school.455 We heard that in some cases, such costs can be explained by the specialised provision they offer, particularly where provision for low-incidence needs may not be available in local state special schools.456 However, such a significant gap in cost raises questions about cost-effectiveness in other contexts. A number of our witnesses highlighted that the independent specialist sector is increasingly being “dominated” by independent schools owned by private equity firms.457 Concerns were raised that these organisations are capitalising on the shortage of state specialist places and the gaps in local provision, with some reportedly charging up to £100,000 per pupil per year and operating at profit margins as high as 25 per cent.

3 layers of Send support available under new system, and how tribunal system would operate

Under the current Send system many parents go to tribunal to force their local authority to agree to provide their child with a education, health and care plan (ECHP) because this is seen as the only way of guaranteeing an adequate special needs educational provision. As the Commons education committee set out in a report on this last year, parents have a 99% success rate when they take these cases to tribunal. That reflects the fact that the provision often being offered routinely not met children’s needs. It also suggests that there are many more children who would qualify for an EHCP if their parents were prepared to go through the lengthy, cumbersome and potentially expensive tribunal process. (Parents do not need a lawyer to take a case to tribunal, but many of them do anyway, because they conclude it will help.)

As Kiran Stacey explains in his story, under the new plans parents will still be able to go to tribunal if they think their child needs an EHCP. But there will be restrictions on what the tribunal can mandate, compared to now. Stacey says:

If parents feel they have been unfairly denied an EHCP, they can appeal to a tribunal. But unlike under the current system, the tribunal will not be allowed to demand that local authorities send a child to a particular school, giving councils far more control over where Send children are educated.

Under the plans, children in year 2 and below who have EHCPs will be assessed under the new system when they move from primary school to secondary. The assessment could result in the plans being removed from thousands of children if they are not deemed to meet the new criteria.

The new ISPs will be administered by schools rather than local authorities, and parents who are unhappy with them will be asked to appeal to the school itself. If they still feel their child’s needs are not being met, they can appeal to a local authority or the Department for Education. But they will not be given recourse to a tribunal, as those fighting for EHCPs can.

This chart, from the DfE’s consultation paper, explains what three levels of support will be available under the new system.

And this chart from the document shows how the tribunal system would operate.

Phillipson says Send reforms needed 'even if money were no object' because current outcomes not good enough

At her press conference Bridget Phillipson admitted that the number of children receiving education, health and care plans (EHCPs) is expected to rise. But she claimed the investment the government was making in early years provision would make a difference. She said:

Part of the reason is all of the unmet need that we’ve seen develop over many, many years. If you’re a society that doesn’t have support when children are young and if where that support has been pulled away, as we saw in the past, then that does make a big difference to children as they arrive at school. It’s part of the reason that so many children arrive not ready to learn.

Phillipson said the government’s plans were “not about targets or numbers or cutting costs”. These plans were about “investment upfront to deliver better life chances for children”, she said.

Even if money were no object, even if the system was not experiencing some of the challenges we see at the moment, we would need to make this change happen because the outcomes for children are just not good enough.

UPDATE: Here is the clip.

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DfE publishes consultation paper on Send reforms

Here is the DfE consultation paper setting out the Send reform plans.

Phillipson says plan to double duration of full maternity pay for teachers will make 'huge difference' to retention

Q: How are you going to ensure that you have the staff available to deliver this extra help?

Phillipson said that the white paper being published today showed how the government intends to recruit another 6,500 teachers, as Labour promised in its manifesto.

She says the retention rates for women were at their highest level since 2010.

And she said the plan announced last week to double the duration of full maternity pay for teachers would make “a huge difference”.

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Phillipson says reforms will lead to 'expansion' in rights for Send children because of new ISPs

Phillipson said that her plans to would lead to “an expansion” of the rights for Send children. She said:

We will see an expansion in the rights that children have. So more children will get support than is the case right now through individual support plans (ISPs).

So an expansion in children’s rights and making sure that more children are able to get that specialist support that at the moment can only be accessed through an education, health and care plan (ECHP).

Phillipson seeks to reassure parents worried getting EHCPs will get harder, saying they shouldn't be 'only way' to get help

Phillipson took questions from journalists after her speech.

Q: What is your message for parents?

Phillipson said:

My message today to parents is that we are going to take away that fight that so many parents have had over such a long period of time to get the support that should be much more readily available to their children.

Q: What reassurance can you give to parents who are worried that they will no longer be able to get an EHCP for their children. (See 11.09am.)

Phillipson said:

So I spent a lot of time speaking with parents, with young people, and with those who support children to understand what needs to change. And what I’ve heard time and again, is that increasingly, EHCPs have become the only way to get what your child needs, the only way to get that support. And we have to change that. We have to make much more support available far more quickly, including specialist provision like speech and language support and educational psychologist support to.

Phillipson also said the new system would be introduced gradually, coming into force from 2030.

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Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, has been speaking about the Send reforms at an event in Peterborough.

This is what she said about the need for inclusion.

Inclusion is a choice. It is an educational choice, and it is also a political choice because we could duck this challenge, ignore the injustice of a postcode lottery in life chances putting off fixing the Send system yet again.

The system works well for some at least.

[But] that’s just not good enough. Our moment calls for courage because before us [there is a] once in a generation chance for change.

Council for Disabled Children, representing Send sector, welcomes 'scale of vision' in government's plans

Richard Adams is the Guardian’s education editor.

The details of the government’s Send reforms have been supported by the Council for Disabled Children, an important umbrella body for the special needs sector with a membership of over 300 voluntary and community organisations.

Amanda Allard, director of the council, said:

We welcome the scale of vision contained in the white paper which has the potential to create an education system that fully values children and young people with additional needs and their families.

We also welcome the commitment to retain statutory education, health and care plans (EHCPs) for children and young people whose needs cannot be met through this new model. We know that many parents will welcome the legal requirement for schools to create individual support plans (ISPs) for all children with Send.

At the same time we know they will be concerned to understand how accountability will work. The consultation launched today is an opportunity to clarify those details, ensuring families have clear routes to action where these ambitions are not being delivered.

About 270,000 fewer children in England to get EHCPs under Send overhaul

Hundreds of thousands fewer children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) will be given education, health and care plans (EHCPs) as a result of long-awaited changes announced by the education secretary this morning, Kiran Stacey reports.

Here is Kiran’s story.

And here is an extract.

Bridget Phillipson has outlined her plans to overhaul Send provision in England, under which only those children with particularly severe or complex needs will be given EHCPs.

Millions of children will be given new individual support plans (ISPs) – a more low-key set of measures to be agreed with schools which could include access to psychologists and therapists, as well as access to “inclusion bases” within schools.

The changes are designed to stem a rapid rise in the number of children being given EHCPs, which has caused a multibillion-pound hole in local authority finances.

Government modelling shows the number of EHCPs are forecast to fall rapidly after the new system comes in, from a peak of nearly 8% of pupils in 2029-30 to under 5% by 2034-35 – a drop of 270,000 if pupil numbers remain stable.

At the end of last week the Times ran a story ahead of the publication of today’s Send reform saying a council had spent “nearly £20,000 a year for a single child to receive horse therapy to help with their special educational needs”. This prompted an angry response from people with direct experience of special needs, including my colleague John Harris, who described the story as ignorant and who said the author should “google ‘riding’ and ‘disabled’ … [and] discover the importance of posture and core stability to many Send”.

Georgia Gould, the education minister, was asked about the story in an interview with Times Radio this morning. Without commenting in detail, she declined to criticise horse therapy in principle. She said:

We’re not going to ban any type of provision that a school wants to put in place, but we are going to ensure that there is consistent provision around the country. At the moment, it’s a massive postcode lottery. Some children are getting far more than others, and we want to make sure there is consistent, good quality provision.

NAHT school leaders' union welcomes £4bn extra funding for Send provision as 'significant'

The NASUWT has criticised the amount of money being allocated by the government to support its Send reforms. (See 9.36am.) But the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has been more positive. This is from its general secretary, Paul Whiteman.

We believe the government’s approach of looking at the whole child, from birth to adulthood, is the right one, with a focus on early intervention, local provision, inclusion of pupils within mainstream settings where appropriate, and collaboration with external services like social care and health.

Crucially, the success or failure of these plans relies on there being sufficient funding – and on the availability of support services.

The money announced is significant, and it is good that it is largely aimed directly at schools. We will now be looking closely at the details and speaking to school leaders across the country to assess the viability of the proposals and whether the investment is enough.

Starmer says 'inclusion works', arguing some Send pupils will do better in mainstream than in special schools

One of the most memorable moments of the 2010 general election came when David Cameron was confronted by a parent and activist who accused the Tory leader of being opposed to disabled children being included in mainstream schools. Cameron insisted that he was not opposed to inclusion, but that he wanted to stop the closure of special needs.

Sixteen years later, Keir Starmer is now actively promoting inclusion. In his Times article, Starmer says:

[The current Send] system that works for nobody. It forces parents into a grinding, adversarial fight to get “one size fits all” support. It encourages private equity vultures to rip off the taxpayer by charging up to five times more for a precious special school place. Meanwhile, for so many children it simply writes off their potential. Insisting, against all evidence, that they could not thrive in a supported and inclusive mainstream school.

We should be crystal clear on this last point: inclusion works. Not for every kid – of course some children need extra support in a specialist institution. That’s why today we are investing in 60,000 extra specialist places.

Nonetheless, the evidence shows that pupils in a mainstream setting achieve around half a grade higher in GCSE English and maths than similar pupils in special schools.

And so we are also investing heavily in inclusion – in teacher training, early intervention, extra teaching assistants, and above all, in Send support that is quicker and more personalised to an individual child’s needs.

IFS says extra Send money for schools amounts to 'reasonably significant change'

Richard Adams is the Guardian’s education editor.

Here is the full quote from Luke Sibieta of the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the Send reform plans as announced overnight. (See 9.50am.)

The government is proposing a major set of reforms, with more funding and support provided upfront through mainstream schools– as already happens in Scotland and Wales. To enable this change, the government will provide about £1bn per year to mainstream schools and local authorities to deliver more support and specialist services. This is a reasonably significant change, considering that extra Send funding for mainstream schools and local authority support services currently totals about £5bn per year. The government will be hoping that more upfront support and early intervention saves them money by reducing the need for expensive support currently provided through education, health and careplans (EHCPs).

Reform will be a long and complicated process. If mainstream schools are to play a bigger role, how can we be sure they make decisions in a consistent and fair way? A new funding system will be needed to ensure resources are targeted across schools to where they are needed. There will need to be a plan to upskill and expand the workforce to ensure mainstream schools can play an expanded role. The government will need to manage the transition carefully to ensure minimal disruption to existing support for pupils. More focus on outcomes will also be needed to improve quality.

Starmer says his determination to improve Send driven in part by memory of his brother Nick who had difficulties learning

Keir Starmer has been talking about his brother Nick, who died in 2024, a lot in recent weeks (eg here and here). And he has made similar points in an article in the Times today where he says that his determination to improve Send provision is in part driven by his memory of his brother. He says:

My father always used to say: “Nick has achieved just as much as you, Keir.” It was a pointed observation. Like so many working-class children of my generation, I was the first in my family to go to university. And for families like ours, there is deep pride in that. Inevitably, you get put on a pedestal.

But my dad was right. I believed him then and I believe him just as strongly now. Because I saw how much Nick had to fight every day just to be seen. To count. To be recognised by an education system that never had any expectations for him because he had difficulties learning.

And Nick did fight. Taught by my mum, he defied those who told him he would never be able to read. Abandoned by the traditional education system, he went to college to get technical qualifications. He ignored the name-callers, the doubters, the people who prefer to look away, and he grafted, just as much as I have, every single day. And so I feel an immense personal sadness that, in the end, he did not quite achieve the level of basic comfort in his life that my parents and I wanted for him.

Starmer often talks about his brother having “difficulties with learning” rather than “learning difficulties”, a term used by educationalists today (which is not the same as a learning disability, even though the two concepts are often confused). In his biography of Starmer, Tom Baldwin says Nick “suffered complications during his birth and subsequently had some fairly severe difficulties with learning”. Starmer has not said what, if any, formal assessments were made of Nick’s disability (it has more than half a century ago, and support for special needs was much more basic then), but it seems likely that, if he were a child today, Nick would have an EHCP (educational health and care plan) under the Send system being reformed by the government.

But the Send reforms are just part of a schools white paper being published today, and in his article Starmer also suggests Nick’s experience at school helps to explain why he is so committed to reform opportunities for children who might not be suited to university.

I want this country to see and value the contribution every single person can make.

It’s a cause that can only start with an education system grounded in those same values. I should be clear – Britain has come a long way since the Seventies and Eighties. For all our problems, we do have a more inclusive and tolerant society. Our schools have improved markedly, under both Labour and Conservative governments. But not for every child.

Not for the white working-class kids, who now get some of the worst grades of any social group. Not for the kids whose gifts lie in their hands and want a good quality apprenticeship in their community. And not for the children who face that same battle Nick faced just to be seen as deserving of educational excellence.

Reform UK talk a lot about white working class children being neglected by the education system, and this is a point its candidate, Matt Goodwin, has raised in the Gorton and Denton byelection.

What DfE says about how it will spend £4bn improving Send provision

Here is the Department for Education’s news release from overnight about the Send reforms.

And this is what it says about how it will spend £4bn improving Send provision in English schools,

To dramatically improve the support mainstream schools can provide for children with SEND, and rebuild families’ confidence in the system, the government will:

-[NEW] Provide £1.6 bn over three years across every early years setting, school and post-16 setting, equating to thousands of pounds extra every year on top of existing core SEND funding, to run targeted and small group interventions at the earliest signs of children having additional needs

-[NEW] Invest £1.8 bn over three years for “Experts at Hand”:

Every council working with Integrated Care Boards and health board will commission local professionals – educational psychology, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and more – so they are routinely available in every area, whether or not children have an EHCP

Special and alternative provision schools to provide expert training, direct interventions with children and short-term placements in their schools

Once rolled out an average secondary school will receive over 160 days – around an additional full school year - worth of dedicated specialist time every year

-[NEW] Invest over £200m so every community’s Best Start Family Hub provides a dedicated SEND outreach and support offer.

-[NEW] Invest £200m to ensure all local authorities can transform how they operate in line with our reforms while maintaining current SEND services

-Train every teacher to be a teacher of children with SEND, with the biggest SEND training offer ever seen in English schools – backed by £200m - and a new requirement for all teachers to be trained to support children with SEND.

-Create 60,000 new places for children with SEND, including the 10,000 places already delivered, backed by investment of over £3.7bn.

Taken together, from the foundations of local family outreach and teacher training, up to today’s investment in expert classroom support, the government is building a SEND system unrecognisable from the one families experience today.

Teaching unions dismiss £4bn pledged for Send overhaul as 'drop in bucket'

Good morning. Of all the government U-turns performed by Labour so far, it is arguable that the most serious was the decision to shelve plans to restrict some disability welfare payments. The U-turn left a £5bn hole in the government finances, but the controversy also massively damaged the government’s relations with disabled people and those who care about them, as well as raising doubts about whether it would ever have the ability to implement welfare-related reforms that might be unpopular with Labour MPs nervous about cost cutting.

The government is not to going to return to the issue of overhauling the personal independence payment (Pip) until the end of a long review promised as part of the welfare benefits U-turn. But it is committed to reforming special educational needs and disabilities (Send) provision in schools in England and, for ministers, this has been seen as the next potential flashpoint. Because the plans are driven in part by the need to contain soaring costs, parents fear they may lose out, and so the risk of a Labour rebellion has been a considerable.

This explainer by Patrick Butler sets out why change is needed.

And, as Jessica Elgot explains in our overnight splash, although the full details are being published today, the government has already said quite a lot about what the plans will involve – and announced a £4bn investment over three years.

So far, Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, seems to have done a good job at keeping Labour MPs onside. When Liz Kendall announced the Pip reforms last year, there were immediate objections from the PLP. As Jess reports, that has not happened this time.

The long-delayed proposals to transform Send in schools in England have resulted in a major listening drive led by Phillipson to try to smooth their landing with parents, and with MPs, many of whom had previously said they were prepared to rebel on the proposals.

MPs who had been wary of the reforms told the Guardian they were privately optimistic that concerns had been heard and the vast majority of cases, especially poorer children, would receive improved provision, though they cautioned that detail may yet emerge in the full white paper to throw that into doubt.

But it is only today that we have learned how much extra money the government is going to invest in Send, and already the debate has started as to whether £4bn over three years is or isn’t a lot of money.

Luke Sibieta from the Institute for Fiscal Studies thinktank, said this funding increase was a “reasonably significant change”, the BBC reports.

But Matt Wrack, general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, said:

While increased early support for Send is welcome, years of underfunding and diminished external services mean that this new funding is barely a drop in the bucket of the investment necessary to drive real improvement in schools.

£1.6bn over three years may sound like a lot of money, but it equates to just a few thousand pounds per setting. It is absolutely ridiculous to suggest that Send provision can be adequately overhauled with this low level of funding, or that the associated workloads for teachers could be in any way offset by throwing a bit of money in their general direction.

As Jess reports in the Guardian story, “the funding is likely to be the equivalent of about £20,000-£40,000 a year for primary schools and about £50,000-£70,000 for secondary schools”.

Here is the agenda for the day.

10.30am: Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, gives a speech in Peterborough on her Send reforms and her schools white paper.

Morning: Keir Starmer is hosting a round table event relating to the Send reforms.

11am: The Department for Education is expected to publish the schools white paper.

Morning: Kemi Badenoch is on a visit in London, promoting the Conservative party’s New Deal for Young People plans. She will also be interviewed on Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine show.

11am: Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson, gives a speech in Dover on his plans to cut immigration and fight crime.

2.30pm: Steve Reed, the housing secretary, takes questions in the Commons.

3.30pm: Ministers are expected to respond to urgent questions. The speaker will decide what UQs to grant but, with the Commons sitting for the first time since a one-week recess, there could be UQs or ministerial statements on various topics including the Chagos Islands, Iran, Donald Trump’s tariffs and the royal line of succession.

Afternoon: Phillipson will make a statement to MPs about the Send reforms after the UQs.

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