Sunak claims defence spending plan won’t affect government’s ability to cut taxes – as it happened

5.16pm BST

Afternoon summary

• Rishi Sunak has claimed that his plan to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030 won’t stop the government from cutting taxes and investing in public services. (See 1.38pm.)

• Angela Rayner has accused ministers of “obsessing” over her living arrangements and urged them to focus on implementing long-promised housing reforms instead.

• Tributes from across the political spectrum have been paid to the former Labour minister and welfare campaigner Frank Field, who has died at the age of 81. And here is the Guardian’s obituary of Field, by Dennis Kavanagh.

• Ministers have pledged to publish a long-buried internal study into the emotional and financial impact of fines and prosecutions incurred by tens of thousands of unpaid carers for falling foul of strict carer’s allowance earnings rules.

• Jeffrey Donaldson has appeared in court charged with rape, gross indecency and other sexual offences spanning 21 years in a case that has stunned Northern Ireland.

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