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Measures to be announced on Wednesday but researchers say there is a ‘lack of high-quality evidence’ such schemes work

Letters: Paul WB Marsden, Sheila Cross and Margaret Waddingham on Labour’s decision to remove the whip from four MPs

The deputy prime minister makes a dramatic intervention over the need for the Labour government to ‘show it can address people’s concerns’

COMMENT: To prop up her team, the Conservatives’ vulnerable leader had little choice but to ‘hug’ one of her previous rivals close – and she was right to keep Robert Jenrick at arm’s length, argues John Rentoul

COMMENT: Nigel Farage’s plan to halve crime – by spending £17bn on building ‘Nightingale prisons’, jailing for life those convicted three times, and sending Britain’s worst offenders to jail in El Salvador – simply doesn’t add up. But should we be worried that neither Labour nor the Tories seem able…

The demonstration by campaign group Led by Donkeys features images of bombed-out buildings next to the caption ‘protesting this isn’t terrorism’

Paul Rimmer urged the Home Office to investigate the risk of radicalisation further, warning that Afghanistan is ‘becoming a base for a wide range of terrorist groups’

Giving 16-year-olds the vote is good, not least to stop the rightward lurch, but real change would mean scrapping first past the post, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

David Lammy joins ministers from 27 other countries in issuing call for immediate end to Gaza war

The U.K. government has announced financial sanctions targeting people-smuggling gangs sending migrants across the English Channel

The Financial Conduct Authority has confirmed changes to simplify rules and create more flexibility