Keir Starmer urges Boris Johnson to end ‘era of oligarch impunity’ – as it happened

6.05pm GMT

Afternoon summary

• Keir Starmer has urged the government to end the “era of impunity” in the UK for Russian oligarchs. (See 2.47pm.) He was speaking at PMQs ahead of a Commons debate that saw Labour set out details of the links between several prominent Tory donors and the Kremlin. (See 4.51pm.) But ministers have refused to accept that their Russian-linked donors are suspect, insisting that it is wrong to see them as Vladmir Putin’s cronies. (See 9.32am.)

• Restoring the Palace of Westminster without finding a new home for MPs could take up to 76 years, with a repairs bill reaching £22bn, a new report shows. PA says:

In an initial assessment of the cost and schedule for action required to save the palace, and an analysis of how this would be impacted by keeping MPs on site, the project’s sponsor body and delivery authority looked at a range of possible scenarios for carrying out the work.

The cheapest option would involve a “full decant” of the palace for between 12 and 20 years, with the work costing in the region of £7bn to £13bn.

In this scenario, with MPs elsewhere for much of the time, the report estimated the restoration would take between 19 and 28 years.

If MPs were to maintain a “continued presence” in the palace, where “all essential and highly desirable functions could be accommodated but in more condensed space”, it found that the work would cost more and take longer.

In one scenario, business would remain within the Commons Chamber “until such a point is reached whereby all operations are transferred to another space within the Palace of Westminster (assumed to be the House of Lords Chamber), to allow the rest of the work to proceed”, the report said.

It estimated this would boost restoration costs to between £9.5bn and £18.5bn, taking 26 to 43 years.

And in a third possible scenario - which would cost the most and take the longest - business would remain within the Chamber “throughout the entirety of the restoration and renewal programme of works”, with “no transfer”.

It is estimated this would cost between £11bn and £22bn and take in the region of 46 to 76 years.

• Two men have been charged after malicious communications were sent to Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner.

• Scotland Yard’s leadership has hit back at Sadiq Khan’s ousting of the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Cressida Dick, claiming “due process” was not followed by the mayor of London and calling on the home secretary, Priti Patel, to review her alleged unfair treatment.

• Social mobility experts have warned that government proposals to introduce minimum eligibility requirements for higher education loans in England will hit poorest students hardest, in effect “closing off university prospects at age three” for the most disadvantaged.

That’s all from me for today. But there is more coverage of the Ukraine crisis on global live blog. It’s here.

5.53pm GMT

Andrew Robathan, a Tory peer and a former armed forces minister, told Times Radio the UK should “stop being pathetic” and adopt a more robust stance on Russian oligarchs. He told the station:

I think we have to get the legal position right. And one of the problems we’ve had in this country, I don’t know if you know about a book called Putin’s People, which I’m reading at the moment, and the author, whose name escapes me, I think she was an FT journalist, has been sued for libel in our courts. And of course she’s got lots of overpaid lawyers prosecuting her. Now this is a war between Ukraine and Putin’s Russia. And we must stop playing by our rules entirely. I’m not saying be illegal, we have to stop being pathetic when it comes to rich oligarchs who are who were basically gangsters who made their money in Russia.

(The book, Putin’s People, is by Catherine Belton, and it’s excellent.)