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Who is Yang Tengbo? Everything we know about alleged Chinese spy who was close confidant of Prince Andrew

Yang Tengbo insisted he has done ‘nothing wrong’ and rejected allegations of being a spy as ‘entirely untrue’

The Independent UK

Nigel Farage threatens to name ‘Chinese spy’ linked to Prince Andrew who ‘met Cameron and May’

Prince Andrew reportedly invited the Chinese spy to Buckingham Palace

The Independent UK

Reform could name spy-accused ‘Andrew confidant’ who ‘met Cameron and May’

The party is threatening to use parliamentary privilege to disclose the businessman’s identity in the chamber.

Evening Standard

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Reform prepared to name alleged Chinese spy in Commons, Farage says

The party is threatening to use parliamentary privilege to reveal who the businessman is in the Commons chamber.

Evening Standard

Sir Keir Starmer ‘raised human rights’ with UAE amid efforts to free UK prisoner

Ryan Cornelius was originally detained in the UAE for 10 years as part of a bank fraud case, but his detention was extended by 20 years.

The Independent UK

Briton jailed in Dubai for past 16 years pleads with Starmer to end ‘nightmare’ on UAE visit

Exclusive: PM urged to fight for release of Ryan Cornelius, now 70, who has spent almost two decades imprisoned on a fraud charge the UN has said is unjust

The Independent UK

Trump will not do trade deal with UK as NI is ‘back door’ to the EU, MPs told

TUV leader Jim Allister said the president-elect ‘has made it very, very plain that he’s in tariff mode’.

The Independent UK

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MP hits outs at supermarkets selling products linked to slave labour

Sarah Champion argued that UK supply chains are ‘awash with Uighur forced labour products’.

Evening Standard

‘Black day’ for Royal Marines – MPs react to decommissioning of Navy ships

Defence Secretary John Healey said two former Royal Navy flagships, a frigate and two support tankers will be decommissioned.

The Independent UK

Starmer twice declines to directly condemn jailing of Hong Kong pro-democracy figures

UK prime minister was condemned by Iain Duncan Smith, who is on Beijing’s sanctions list

The Guardian - UK

‘Mystifying’ why Falklands War files on ship’s bombing still not released – MP

Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin asked defence minister Al Carns why documents about the 1982 attack on the Sir Galahad were being withheld.

Evening Standard

Defence Secretary John Healey challenged to increase department spending to 2.5%

Sir Iain Duncan Smith said he expects the Strategic Defence Review to find that the UK is facing the biggest threat since the Cold War.

Evening Standard

Voices: ‘The new Thatcher or the new Truss?’ 10 of your burning Tory leadership questions answered

ASK ME ANYTHING: In this exclusive Q&A session, The Independent’s political commentator Andrew Grice addresses key dynamics in the Tory leadership race, and what we can expect when Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick takes the helm

The Independent UK

China recognises sanctions on MPs are a ‘huge concern’, says Lammy

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said it had been raised with the Chinese government as ‘a matter of huge concern’ while he was in Beijing.

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Top Ukraine cleric pleads with Starmer for help over Zelensky’s Orthodox church crackdown

Exclusive: Prime minister has been criticised for delaying his appointment of a new envoy for religious freedom

Evening Standard

James Cleverly allies may have tried to boot Kemi Badenoch out of Tory race, says MP

Shadow business secretary Kevin Hollinrake stressed the Tory leadership voting patterns were ‘quite surprising’ after James Cleverly lost out

The Guardian - UK

Tories shocked at Cleverly exit while Labour MP says Badenoch-Jenrick contest is a ‘gift’ – as it happened

Audible gasps as apparent frontrunner is eliminated while political rivals are gleeful

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak to defy election humiliation with surprise speech at Tory conference

Exclusive: Rishi Sunak has been quiet for most of the summer but the outgoing Tory leader is planning on giving a final speech at his party’s conference after questions were asked over if he would even turn up

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The Independent UK

Sven-Goran Eriksson: The failed alchemist of England’s ‘Golden Generation’ with a career of two halves

It was once said of Eriksson that ‘England needed Winston Churchill but got Iain Duncan Smith’, yet football’s amiable globetrotter deserves huge respect for a stunningly successful career that preceded drinking from the Three Lions’ poisoned chalice

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Conservative party: whatever goes around comes around

Editorial: Since 1900, only four Tory leaders have not gone on to become prime minister. Rishi Sunak’s successor is likely to become the fifth

The Independent UK

More than half of anti-abortion MPs lose seats in election

Exclusive: Leading UK abortion provider says parliament could now be most pro-abortion rights in its history

The Independent UK

How Gaza anger hit Labour: a frontbencher lost and numerous close shaves as Corbyn beats the party he once led

Wes Streeting’s majority slashed as Corbynite Labour MP Zarah Sultana said it was ‘no surprise’ the party has ‘clearly lost support in parts of the country’ because of its position on the war

The National (Scotland)

Leading Labour figure loses seat to independent pro-Palestine candidate

Labour’s shadow paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth, who played a prominent role in the party’s media campaign, lost his seat to an independent.

Evening Standard

Sir Iain Duncan Smith holds on to Chingford and Woodford Green seat after Labour vote split

The contest was a three-way fight between the former Tory leader, Labour’s Shama Tatler and Independent candidate Faiza Shaheen

Evening Standard

Parties battle to drive up London election turnout after Jeremy Corbyn holds final rally

Sir Keir Starmer voted in his safe constituency of Holborn and St Pancras, but other London seats are on a knife-edge

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