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Kemi Badenoch gives shadow housing secretary job to former leadership rival

Former Ipswich MP Tom Hunt kicked out of party after disciplinary investigation

Here, the party has preferred Nigel Farage cosplay to genuine – and much-needed – opposition. Look where it’s got them, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward

The shadow justice secretary said that Nigel Farage’s party should give ex-chairman Mr Yusuf ‘the boot’.

Downing Street said the Defence Secretary’s statement to MPs was ‘accurate’.

What, exactly, has Diane Abbott said that’s so wrong – wrong enough to get her suspended (again) from the Labour Party? Her observation, that the prejudice that Travellers or Jewish people encounter – or indeed redheads – is different from the racism that black people experience seems like a statement…

The details of more than 100 Britons, including those working as spies and in special forces, were included in the massive breach.

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: If anything, given the sheer size of the rebellion on social security – 130 of his own MPs threatening to defeat a government bill – Keir Starmer has been too lenient