Dissatisfaction with Rishi Sunak’s government at near record levels, poll suggests – as it happened

Rishi Sunak on Thursday. His government has received a net satisfaction score of -68 in Ipsos polling. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

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Afternoon summary

• Struggling mortgage holders will be given a 12-month grace period before their repossession proceedings begin, in an agreement between Jeremy Hunt and Britain’s biggest lenders.

• Thousands of junior doctors are to go on strike across England for five days in the longest such industrial action in the history of the NHS.

• Seven years after the Brexit referendum, the proportion of Britons who want to rejoin the EU has climbed to its highest levels since 2016, according to a new survey. Four out of five Britons now want a closer relationship with the EU, another poll suggests, and a third of leave voters want the UK to at least rejoin the single market. (See 9.32am.)

• Dissatisfaction with the government is running at near record levels, with 80% of people unhappy with the way it is running the country, a poll suggests. (See 2pm.)

Keir Starmer speaking to military personnel during a visit to an RAF base in Oxfordshire ahead of Armed Forces Day on Saturday. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

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Steve Brine becomes latest Conservative MP to announce he's standing down at election

The Conservative MP Steve Brine has announced that he is standing down at the next election. Brine, 49, has been a health minister and now chairs the Commons health committee. He was elected in 2010 as MP fo Winchester, where he had a majority of just 985 over the Liberal Democrats at the last election.

In a letter to his local association chair posted on his website, Brine said he wanted to spent more time with his young family. He said:

When I first entered parliament I had in my mind to serve for 20 years – or four general elections – whichever came first.

This wasn’t a hard and fast rule, and I don’t think anyone could have predicted the events of the past thirteen years, but it feels like the right time now, for both myself and the family …

My team and I have done tens of thousands of pieces of casework to-date and that quietly remains the bedrock of my work for the people I represent. But that has all come at a price; being away several nights every week, working at pace across this vast constituency when I am home plus every weekend and just the sheer intensity of this role in the modern age.

We always think our children need us most when they’re little, and that is of course true in the most basic caring sense, but I’ve learnt they need us more as they get older. I hope, in time, to be around a little more; both for them but also for Susie [his wife] who has supported me every step of the way and without whom I could never have done any of this.

According to a tally by the Spectator, Brine is the 42nd Conservative MP to say they are standing down. Brine and the others account for more than 10% of the 352-strong parliamentary party in the Commons.

Updated at 4.09pm BST