Afternoon summary
Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, has used what he said will be the first annual statement to parliament about the state of the climate to accuse the Conservatives of being “anti-science, anti-jobs, anti-energy security, and anti-future generations”. (See 4.24pm.)
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has said the British Medical Association (BMA) is acting in an “shockingly irresponsible” way by telling members not to tell their employers if they are planning to strike. (See 2.57pm.)
For a full list of all the stories covered on the blog today, do scroll through the list of key event headlines near the top of the blog.
Cooper taunts Philp by saying 5 years ago he said Tories hopeful of getting returns deal with France - but only Labour clinched it
Cooper is responding to Philp. She says he wants to pretend that the last eight years never happened. The small boats crisis went on for 340 weeks, under the Tories. And she says Philp himself admitted that the Rwanda deportation policies never started. (He missed out the four volunteers who went, she says.)
She says, as chair of the home affairs committee, she asked Philp when he was immigration minister about the Tory plans to negotiate a returns agreement with France. Philp said he was optimistic, he says. She says he should have been optimistic for a Labour government – because in five years the Tories never got a deal, but Labour has got one now.
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