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COMMENT: Protesters outside a hotel housing asylum seekers have accused the local force of ‘bussing in’ anti-racism campaigners, a fallacy repeated by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and which has taken hold on social media. But it’s not the police stirring up trouble, says Sean O’Grady

COMMENT: The prime minister has secured Britain’s biggest post-Brexit agreement – but it’s also one in the eye for Boris Johnson, who had promised to make it happen, but failed, says John Rentoul

Ex-Labour leader said it was ‘time for a new kind of political party’ to take on Starmer – but Labour grandee warns it will only help Tories and Reform

Tory leader says she can fulfil same role as Milei, a far-right leader promising big cuts to public spending

Former Labour leader said he was founding the new party, which is being referred to currently as Your Party

Does Kemi Badenoch’s reshuffle mean the Reform-lite strategy is over? I don’t know and I’m not sure she does either, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

There have been a series of demonstrations outside the Bell Hotel in Epping since an asylum seeker was charged with sexual assault.

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: With her characteristically blunt assessment of her government’s first year in office, the deputy prime minister has only added to the simmering tensions within the country at large over migration. She ought to know better than to play into the hands of those who would exploit…

NEWS ANALYSIS: The deputy prime minister’s dramatic intervention came at a time when her stock is rising in Keir Starmer’s government, notes David Maddox

COMMENT: Whether he turned down the offer of a more substantial position on Badenoch’s front bench, or was simply ignored in her reshuffle, John Rentoul wonders what the shadow justice secretary might be up to – and if a defection to Reform is on the cards