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Experts call for integrated European defence against airborne threats; Nato allies on continent send more jets to protect Polish skies. What we know on day 1,297

Balls criticised Sir Keir’s reshuffle for making the government appear ‘chaotic’

It comes on the eve of her first visit to Ukraine as Foreign Secretary.

PM and foreign secretary were nowhere in sight as hapless Stephen Doughty faced the Commons over Peter Mandelson

Street artist has managed to keep his identity a closely-guarded secret since his emergence in the mid-1990s

YOUR VIEWS: Our community was largely unimpressed with the PM’s reshuffle, arguing that the changes did not leave the government better positioned to challenge Farage. Others felts that the departure of Angela Rayner left the cabinet – and politics – worse off

New home secretary vows to move ‘further and faster’ to cut number of people entering by irregular routes

The graffiti is on a listed building.

Is there a chance, do you think, that the new Home Secretary, the rather impressive Shabana Mahmood, might use her first days in the job to reverse one of the most egregious errors of her predecessor? I refer to Yvette Cooper’s idiotic proscription of Palestine Action. That genius idea of…

A HOST of Scottish Labour loyalists – including a former Better Together chief and the wife of Keir Starmer’s top strategist – have been given…

Shabana Mahmood will host representatives from the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand to discuss ways to ‘smash the gangs’ as new figures reveal the scale of the migrant crisis she has inherited as the new home secretary